tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-71319507626858466012015-03-03T16:33:27.352+00:00Paul EisenPaul Eisennoreply@blogger.comBlogger1220125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7131950762685846601.post-17523914863957789202015-03-03T14:08:00.001+00:002015-03-03T16:33:27.364+00:00Gilad Atzmon - urgent<b><span style="font-size: large;">This is from <a href="http://www.gilad.co.uk/writings/2015/3/3/manchester-music-school-surrenders-to-zionist-lobby-pressure">Gilad Atzmon's website</a></span></b><br /><b><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></b><b><span style="font-size: large;">Can I urge everyone to contact the Royal Northern College of Music&nbsp;</span></b><br /><span style="background-color: #f7f6f5; color: #262626; font-family: adelle; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; line-height: 23.7999992370605px;"><br /></span>Tel: 0044-161 907 5200<br />Fax: 0044-161 273 7611<br />Email: <a href="mailto:info@rncm.ac.uk">info@rncm.ac.uk</a><br /><br /><br /><h1 class="title" data-content-field="title" id="yui_3_17_2_1_1425391321135_473" style="background-color: #f7f6f5; font-family: adelle; font-size: 30px; font-weight: 300; letter-spacing: 1px; line-height: 1.25em; margin: 0px auto 0.25em; text-align: center; width: 518px;">Manchester Music School Surrenders to Zionist Lobby Pressure</h1><div class="post-meta author-date" style="background-color: #f7f6f5; color: #9c9c9c; font-family: adelle; font-size: 13px; line-height: 23.7999992370605px; margin: 0px auto 30px; text-align: center; width: 518px;"><a href="http://www.gilad.co.uk/writings/2015/3/3/manchester-music-school-surrenders-to-zionist-lobby-pressure" style="color: #9c9c9c; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">March 03, 2015</a><span class="author">&nbsp;&nbsp;/&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="http://www.gilad.co.uk/writings/?author=544680b3e4b076f260525f4f" style="color: #9c9c9c; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">Gilad Atzmon</a></span></div><div class="body" id="yui_3_17_2_1_1425391321135_186" style="background-color: #f7f6f5; color: #262626; font-family: adelle; font-size: 14px; line-height: 23.7999992370605px; margin: 0px auto; width: 518px;"><div class="sqs-layout sqs-grid-12 columns-12" data-layout-label="Post Body" data-type="item" data-updated-on="1425389857023" id="item-54f5b747e4b0a5071f029b9f"><div class="row sqs-row" id="yui_3_17_2_1_1425391321135_185" style="margin-left: -15px; margin-right: -15px; width: auto !important;"><div class="col sqs-col-12 span-12" id="yui_3_17_2_1_1425391321135_184" style="float: left; padding-right: 0px; width: 548px;"><div class="sqs-block html-block sqs-block-html" data-block-type="2" id="block-4be31d836e7a562a9cba" style="-webkit-transition: box-shadow 0.1s ease-in-out; clear: none; height: auto; outline: transparent solid 1px; padding: 0px 15px 17px; position: relative; transition: box-shadow 0.1s ease-in-out;"><div class="sqs-block-content" style="cursor: auto; outline: none;"><strong>By Gilad Atzmon</strong></div></div><div class="sqs-block image-block sqs-block-image" data-block-type="5" id="block-yui_3_17_2_1_1425389358143_29543" style="-webkit-transition: box-shadow 0.1s ease-in-out; clear: both; height: auto; outline: transparent solid 1px; padding: 17px 15px; position: relative; transition: box-shadow 0.1s ease-in-out;"><div class="sqs-block-content" id="yui_3_17_2_1_1425391321135_183"><div class="image-block-outer-wrapper layout-caption-below " id="yui_3_17_2_1_1425391321135_182"><div class="intrinsic" id="yui_3_17_2_1_1425391321135_181" style="margin: auto; max-width: 400px;"><div class="image-block-wrapper has-aspect-ratio" data-description="" id="yui_3_17_2_1_1425391321135_180" style="line-height: 0; overflow: hidden; padding-bottom: 260px; position: relative; text-align: center;"><img class="thumb-image loaded" data-image-dimensions="400x260" data-image-focal-point="0.5,0.5" data-image-id="54f5b8e6e4b04b99e3043d52" data-image-resolution="500w" data-image="http://static1.squarespace.com/static/544680b5e4b0149c3cfddd3b/t/54f5b8e6e4b04b99e3043d52/1425389799270/" data-load="false" src="http://static1.squarespace.com/static/544680b5e4b0149c3cfddd3b/t/54f5b8e6e4b04b99e3043d52/1425389799270/?format=500w" data-src="http://static1.squarespace.com/static/544680b5e4b0149c3cfddd3b/t/54f5b8e6e4b04b99e3043d52/1425389799270/" data-type="image" style="border: 0px; display: block; height: 260px; left: 0px; max-width: none; position: absolute; top: 0px; width: 400px;" /></div></div></div></div></div><div class="sqs-block html-block sqs-block-html" data-block-type="2" id="block-yui_3_17_2_1_1425389358143_29774" style="-webkit-transition: box-shadow 0.1s ease-in-out; clear: none; height: auto; outline: transparent solid 1px; padding: 17px 15px; position: relative; transition: box-shadow 0.1s ease-in-out;"><div class="sqs-block-content" style="cursor: auto; outline: none;"><br />Yesterday I learned that my concert at The&nbsp;<a href="https://www.facebook.com/RNCMLIVE" style="color: #a2834e; text-decoration: none;">Royal Northern College of Music</a>this coming Thursday had been cancelled due to Zionist pressure. I spoke with the RNCM's Marketing Director who told me that the concert was cancelled due to 'safety reasons.' It seems that the venue felt 'unable to guarantee my safety.' Given that I’m now a pretty big boy, this would be somewhat amusing except that the terrible implication is that&nbsp;<a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-28992601" style="color: #a2834e; text-decoration: none;">Zionist’s violence</a>&nbsp;has now made it to Britain.&nbsp;&nbsp;<strong>It took a few hours before I found out that it was the ultra-</strong><strong>&nbsp;Zionist<a href="https://www.change.org/p/royal-northern-college-of-music-cancel-the-performance-of-gilad-atzmon-on-march-5-2015" style="color: #a2834e; text-decoration: none;">'North West Friend Of Israel'</a>&nbsp;that had put pressure on the music school.</strong><br />As usual, they have produced a pile of lies about my work and my writing. They suggested that my concerts were “fostering anti Semitism” which is obviously a complete lie in fact not once has anyone logged a complaint about my concerts or my talks. They also referred to the ‘sensitivity of Jewish students’ ignoring the fact that since its day of inception, The Orient House Ensemble has always included Jewish musicians and, if this is were not enough, many of our promoters and supporters are Jewish.&nbsp; Then they argued that my book ‘The Wandering Who has been called ‘probably the most anti-Semitic book published in recent years’ forgetting to mention that it is a best seller in Britain, the USA and many other countries and has been&nbsp;<a href="http://www.gilad.co.uk/literature/" style="color: #a2834e; text-decoration: none;">endorsed</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;by some of the greatest humanists of our time. They also forgot to mention that not a single country, including Israel, has banned it or declared it unlawful. And yes, the book is indeed critical of Jewish identity politics and exposes the exact same Jewish political lobbying which the North West Friend Of Israel yesterday exercised in Manchester.<br />And it’s worth noting that the Zionist pressure group substantiated their ‘arguments’ by referring to the writing of none other than Alan Dershowitz, currently implicated in a&nbsp;<a href="http://uk.businessinsider.com/how-alan-dershowitz-got-involved-in-jeffrey-epstein-case-2015-1" style="color: #a2834e; text-decoration: none;">huge sex scandal</a>. This puzzles me. Would the RNCM cancel my concert based on criticism of my work voiced by the likes of say, Jimmy Saville or Garry Glitter? You decide.<br />This morning I referred this issue to my legal team. I also learned that very soon a petition will be launched denouncing the RNCM and calling on them to put this matter right. In the meantime, please write or call the RNCM on:<br />T: 0044-161 907 5200<br />F: 0044-161 273 7611<br />E:&nbsp;<a href="mailto:info@rncm.ac.uk" style="color: #a2834e; text-decoration: none;">info@rncm.ac.uk</a><br />I will keep you posted.<br />Gilad</div></div></div></div></div></div>Paul Eisenhttps://plus.google.com/115728519410143369471noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7131950762685846601.post-61050351194912693382015-03-02T10:55:00.001+00:002015-03-02T12:00:46.539+00:00Hitler in Paris<b><br /></b><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-lSVzAEFT7qs/VPRCUoNjtOI/AAAAAAAADJU/S0P4b12go_0/s1600/Hitler_in_Paris%2C_23_June_1940.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-lSVzAEFT7qs/VPRCUoNjtOI/AAAAAAAADJU/S0P4b12go_0/s1600/Hitler_in_Paris%2C_23_June_1940.jpg" height="640" width="436" /></a></div><b>This, from&nbsp;<a href="http://carolynyeager.net/ein-anderer-hitler-hermann-giesler-paris">Carolyn Yeager's website</a>&nbsp;describes a visit Adolf Hitler made to Paris in the early hours of June 23 1940. The piece is appropriately titled "Ein Anderer Hitler" (The Other Hitler) because the account of the visit does so much to correct the grotesque caricature of Hitler which is so fundamental to the post-war, post-Holocaust consensus under which we live.</b><br /><div><b>It's also one of the most evocative scenarios I have ever come across.</b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>This is a Hitler at the very zenith of his powers and his achievements yet he comes in the dawn quiet to Paris, not as any conqueror but as the simple artist he aspired to be - and in many ways was.&nbsp;</b></div><div><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">With Adolf Hitler in Paris</span></b><br /><h3>An eye-witness description of his famous visit to Paris on June 23, 1940</h3>From Ein Anderer Hitler (Another Hitler) by Hermann Giesler, Druffel Verlag, Leoni am Starnberger See, 6th Edition, 1982.<br />Translation with Commentary by Carolyn Yeager and Wilhelm Mann<br />Copyright 2008 Carolyn Yeager<br /><br /><b>Translators' Introduction:</b><br />Through the decades since 1939, historians and writers from varied political persuasions - some with questionable reputations, many with questionable research - have characterized Adolf Hitler in a full range of negatives: ignorant, unstable, grandiose; psychopathic; suffering from illnesses that affected his brain; a sexual pervert; a self-hating part-Jew; a life failure seeking to extract revenge on a society that rejected him. The dark characterizations of the German Fuehrer by these people seem to know no bounds, nor any shred of balance or decency.<br /><br />Did a different Hitler exist? Can we find credible evidence that can correct the propaganda of these pseudo historians? And what evidence would it be that would convince the average man and woman that Adolf Hitler’s goal was not world domination and enslavement, but to establish justice and fairness for Germans and to build a great German nation within a unified, anti-communist Europe?<br /><br />There have been many who knew him and were close to him, some on a daily basis – who wrote books telling quite a different tale. Nicolaus von Below, Hitler's Luftwaffe adjutant from 1937 to 1945 (At Hitler's Side, 2001), wrote that Hitler was neither arrogant nor stubborn, but could be persuaded to change his mind if given clear and reasoned arguments.<br /><br />Among others who were with Hitler to the end, and lived to write about it, were Hans Bauer, his personal pilot (I Flew with the Mighty of the World, 1957); Rochus Misch, his bodyguard (The Last Witness, 2008); two of Hitler's secretaries: Christa Schroeder (He was my Chief, 1985) and Traudl Junge (Until the Final Hour, 2002). All described an Adolf Hitler who was a considerate, correct and even kind employer, with a calm and agreeable personality, who seldom if ever raised his voice. None of these witnesses had any reason to lie; in fact they had every reason to say otherwise, as they have all been accused of stating falsehoods or being in denial by the gatekeepers of politically correct history.<br /><br />In addition to these sources that tell of "Hitler the Employer," there is a little-known book published in German in 1977 by Hermann Giesler, Adolf Hitler’s trusted architect and confidant, which reveals a man we can call “Hitler the Artist.” As a student of the arts and architecture, Adolf Hitler became vitally concerned with the planning and building of cities. We meet a man whose ideas were wide-ranging and constructive, whose knowledge of architecture was vast, and whose taste was cultured. <br /><br />In his fascinating book, Ein Anderer Hitler, Giesler gives us an account of his own personal exchanges with the Fuehrer concerning sweeping architectural plans for the cities of Grossdeutschland (Greater Germany) – Berlin, Munich and Linz – along with some intimate insights into the Fuehrer’s psychology. This article will limit itself to the chapter titled “With Adolf Hitler in Paris,” an eye-witness description of Hitler’s famous visit to Paris on the eve of the armistice between France and Germany, after the German victory of the Battle of France.<br /><br />* * * *<br /><br />Giesler begins when he was stopped by a police detail on June 22, 1940 when on his way to a building site near Vienna, and told to drive to the Vienna airport. There, he boarded a Ju 52 courier airplane which landed on an airstrip in northern France, after which a land rover drove him to Adolf Hitler's headquarters at Bruly de Peche, north of Sedan. The armistice was set to begin the following day at midnight. When face to face, Hitler lost no time in commenting to Giesler upon his victory and his desire to see Paris without further delay.<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq"><i>“All right, Giesler, at that time you could not know it, but I was sure of my strategic concept, the necessary tactical details, and my confidence in the fighting power of the German forces. Out of it, the carefully planned timetable developed naturally. I remembered that during the winter I invited you to go with me to Paris; I've asked Breker and Speer to come along. With my artists, I want to look at Paris. We will take off early in the morning."</i></blockquote>Arno Breker was Hitler’s favorite sculptor, and Albert Speer his other trusted architect. That evening, Hitler, his military staff and aides-de-camp, along with the three artists, had a simple dinner together at two long tables in a primitive hut. Giesler makes a special point of telling us:<br /><br /><i>There was no triumphant attitude, no loud voices–only serious dignity. The faces of the responsible leaders still wore the stress of the past weeks. I considered myself unworthy of the reward of sitting with them.</i><br /><br />They left at 4 a.m. in the Fuehrer airplane and landed at Le Bourget airport, still in darkness, where open cars awaited them. Speer, Breker and Giesler, along with the SS Adjutant Schaub and the ordinance officer, Colonel Speidel, joined Adolf Hitler in his car. Giesler writes:<br /><br /><i>The former military attache in Paris drove ahead of us as pilot and silent mentor. With our dimmed lights we could only see the contours of the buildings. We passed barricades – the guards stepped out and saluted; one could sense armistice was not completely at work. Adolf Hitler was sitting in front of me and I recalled the past winter evening when he talked about Paris, his confidence that he would see the city soon. Now his wish was being realized. But he did not arrive in Paris as the Supreme Commander of the German Wehrmacht – he arrived as the “Bauherr” (construction boss) of German cities which he already visualized with their new faces. He came here to compare architecture, to experience the atmosphere of the city in the company of his two architects and one sculptor, even though escorted by a military entourage – soldiers which surely had earned the privilege to see the capital of France with him.</i><br /><img src="http://www.carolynyeager.net/system/files/styles/large/private/images/AH%20inside%20the%20opera_1.jpg?itok=I1w0UDml" /><br />Right: Hitler party enters the Paris Opera<br /><br />Giesler had the impression that the itinerary was carefully planned. Their first destination was the Imperial Opera House, designed by the architect Garnier. Since Hitler wanted to see the façade in bright sunlight, they immediately went inside. Though a guardian walked ahead of them, Adolf Hitler led the way, pointing out significant features of the building. Giesler says,<br /><br /><i>It might be that the contrast from the simple atmosphere of the Fuehrer headquarters in the small village of Bruly to this magnificent display of the past Empire increased the impression it made. Up to this day, I only knew of the Opera façade and was surprised by the clear concept of the basic plan, impressed by the arrangement of the spacious rooms: the entry halls, the generous staircase, the foyers and the splenderous, gleaming, gold inner theater. We were standing in the middle loge. Adolf Hitler was fascinated – wonderful, exceptionally beautiful proportions, and what festivity! It was a theater with a special character, regardless of it's splendor of the "Belle Epoque" and a stylish eclecticism of a certain over-abundant baroque. Hitler repeated that its main importance remains within these beautiful proportions. "I would like to see the reception room, the salon of the president behind the proscenium box," said Hitler. A back and forth shuffling took place. "According to Garnier's plan, it must be around here." The guard was at first confused, but then he remembered that after a renovation the room was removed. Hitler remarked, "The democratic republic doesn’t even favor its president with his own reception salon."</i><br /><br /><img src="http://www.carolynyeager.net/system/files/styles/large/private/images/AH%20inside%20opera%20house.jpg?itok=P8ndB2Vi" /><br />Right: The Fuehrer admires the staircase<br /><br />Walking back through the foyers, they returned down the stairway and out the front entrance for a first view of the famous façade in daylight. Then to the Madeleine, which did not impress Hitler. Next on the agenda were the important squares and streets. Giesler writes:<br /><br /><i>Slowly, in a wide circle, we drove around the fountains and the Luxor obelisks at the place de la Concord. Adolf Hitler stood up in his car to get an all around view. He looked across the large square toward the Tuilleries to the Louvre, then across the Seine River to the building of the Chambre des Deputes. At the beginning of the Champs Elysees, he asked to stop. Looking at the walls of the Admiralty, he could now see, through the short street space of the rue Royal, the column gable of the Madelein – now really effective. </i><br /><br /><img src="http://www.carolynyeager.net/system/files/styles/large/private/images/AH%20drives%20onto%20the%20champs%20elysee.jpg?itok=IJTkRe92" /><br />Left: Hitler's car drives onto the Champs-Elysee<br /><br /><i>Adolf Hitler took his time to absorb all this – then a short signal with his hand and we drove slowly along the slightly rising Champs Elysee towards the Etoil with its all-dominating Arc de Triomphe.<br /><br />Critically checking this, his eyes looked at the road construction, which he could see through the tree-lined streets around the Round Point. All his concentrating attention then went to the Arc and the way the surrounding area of the Etoil was solved, space-wise. He brushed the reliefs on the right and left side of the Arc with one short look (they embody the pathos of the Marseillaise), and the chiseled inscriptions (the French would not forget any of their victorious battles). From descriptive literature he knew every detail.</i><br /><br />Giesler tells us that Adolf Hitler later shared his thoughts about this particular experience. Hitler had said,<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq"><i>"The luxurious expanse of the place de la Concord impresses naturally since the square expands itself into the Tuilleries Gardens to the Louvre, and over the lower bedded Seine all the way to the ministries and the Chambre des Deputes. Optically, it also encompasses the expansion towards the Madelein and the wide open space of the beginning of the Champs Elysees. From the human perspective, that’s nearly limitless. Beautiful was the view from the Concord, with its fountains and obelisk in the foreground, toward the Admiralty, the rue Royal with the Madelein in the background."</i></blockquote>From the Etoil they drove to the Embarcadero, viewing the giant of the 19th Century, the Eiffel Tower, across the Seine from the large terrace of the Palais Chailot. Beyond it, the Mars field stretched out wide, with the Ecole Militair at its end. Giesler says they had a long debate at that point, which he recites in a shortened version:<br /><br /><i>Adolf Hitler told me that he considers the Eiffel Tower not only as the beginning of a new standard of buildings, but also as the start of an engineering type of tectonics. "This tower is not only synonymous with Paris and the world exhibition at that time, but it stands, if not yet, as an example of classicism, and yet for the beginning of a new epoch." He meant the epoch of a new technology with completely changed targets and dimensions (Groessenordnungen), at that time unknown. What follows are wide-spanned bridges, buildings with large vertical dimensions which because of exact engineering calculations could now be used as static structures. But only through coordination between engineers, artists and architects could he see the possibility of proper creativity. Classicism, which we have to aim at, can only be reached by tectonics which conform with new materials - steel and reinforced concrete indeed being proprietary.</i><br /><br />Giesler says he was often contemplating about that, and several times later had the opportunity to discuss with Hitler his ideas about that "world of technology" and his formulations were very clear. On their further drive across the Seine to the Ecole militaire:<br /><br /><i>We stopped at a monument of a French general of the 1914-18 war with an inscription insulting German soldiers - very tasteless. Hitler got angry, waited for the accompanying car to stop, turned to the military men and ordered they see to it that it is blown up. Honoring Col. Gen. Keitel, who traveled with us, we visited the Cour d’honneur de l’Ecole militaire. Then we arrived at the highlight of our trip – at least for me.</i><br /><br /><img src="http://carolynyeager.net/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/AH_Paris%201_crypt.jpg" /><br />On June 24, 1940, Hitler, (in light coat) with Hermann Giesler to his left, looks respectfully down on Napoleon's crypt.<br /><br /><i>In the dome of the Invalides, Adolf Hitler stood for a long time with his head bent on the rim of the crypt and stared down at Napoleon’s sarcophagus. I stood at his left side, not by coincidence, but because he pulled me to his side. Quietly he said to me, “Giesler, you will build my grave site, we’ll talk about it later.”<br /><br />Quiet and thoughtful, he left the dome; we remained a few steps behind him. Outside the gate, Hitler turned around: "Bormann, I want the Herzog of Reichsstadt to be brought back to Paris.”</i><br />The Herzog, Napoleon’s son with his 2nd wife, the Austrian Princess Marie Luise, was kept in Vienna and educated there. He died in 1832 at the age of twenty-one at the Schoenbrunn palace in Vienna and was buried at the Habsburg tomb, the “Kapuziner Gruft.” The restoration of the body of the Herzog von Reichsstadt from its burial place in Austria to the crypt of his father in Paris is one of the little-known and seldom spoken of actions undertaken by Adolf Hitler to show his respect for the French people and culture.<br /><br /><i>We drove on and stopped for a short while at a well-proportioned city palais, the future German embassy. Adolf Hitler gave orders for its careful renovation with the assistance of French conservators.<br /><br />Adolf Hitler showed his disappointment with the Pantheon at the top of the Latin Quarter by leaving the building abruptly. Out in the open again, he shook his head and heaved a sigh.<br /><br />“My God, it does not deserve its name, if you think about the Roman Pantheon with its classical interior, the unique lighting from the wide open ceiling – it combines dignity with solemnity. And then you look at that” – and he pointed back – “more than somber even on this bright summer day.” As they returned to their car, a few women spotted them, crying out: c’est lui – that’s he.</i><br /><br /><i>Bypassing the Sorbonne and Cluny across the Seine to the Ile de la Cite, driving slowly without a stop, we saw the Notre Dame. A discussion between Hitler and Breker began about the name and the use of a building. Hitler pointed toward a building with a cupola: “Isn’t that the so-called Tribunal of the Chamber of Commerce?” Breker said No, and since he lived many years in Paris he was sure about it. When we came closer it was obvious Hitler had already recognized the building from a distance by its form and location. Below the gable one could read: Tribunal de Commerce.<br /><br />Crossing the Pont d`Arcole of the second Seinearm, we drove to the square in front of the Hotel de Ville to the rue de Rivoli and further to the place des Vosges. The queen Maria de Medici ordered that square arrangement, remembering her Florence. Because of the dense tree lines, the original space idea is no longer recognizable. The way the place de la Vosges presented itself did not impress Hitler. After a short look at what he could still recognize, we moved on.</i><br />The impression Hitler had of the rue de Rivoli:<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq"><i>“It’s kilometer-long uniform façade is just right and is effective because, at the opposite side, the Louvre and the adjoining Tuilleries Gardens require that quiet and even form. All the more of a surprise, then, is the disruption of the small square with the Jeanne d’Arc monument.”</i></blockquote><i>We turned around and drove through the rue Castiglioni to the place Vendome, with its famous column on this magnificently shaped square, then the rue de la Paix to the place de l’Opera, with a lofty view of the vivid, although a bit theatrical, facade of the Opera, now in bright light. Hitler admired that city-planning connection. “Certainly,” he said to me later “it is very decorative, partly too rich, but naturally corresponding to the style taste of that epoch. Planning our architecture, we will aim at a classicism of stricter, sharper forms, according to our character. What I have seen in Paris forces me to compare the performance of the German architecture of the same period: Gilly, Schinkel, Klenze, Hansen and Semper, and Siccardsburg with his Vienna Opera – I have the impression they can hold their place. Not to mention the great creations of the baroque architects like Lukas Hildebrandt, Fischer von Erlach, Balthasar Neumann, Prandtauer and others. What the Germans miss is continuity and persistence in their architectural aims, but this is still recognizable in the Germany of the Middle Ages with cathedrals and domes of the city communities, and the baroque buildings of the royal houses.”<br /><br />Approaching the Montmartre, Hitler barely looked at the Sacre Coeur. From the elevated terrace in front of the church, he wanted to see down across the part of Paris he had just visited, with its streets and squares. He wanted to get an impression of the relief effect of the buildings within the city spaces – how a certain order wins control over the jumble of buildings – how decisively the impressive buildings establish a strong order within their set scale: the Notre Dame and the Arc de Triomphe, the big squares, the great street axes, the Hausmann-avenues.</i><br /><br />Adolf Hitler believed that as far as he could view the concentration of Paris from here, the monuments and places stood out only weakly from the monotony of living quarters and functional buildings. The great cohesion from the Louvre to the Etoile, the Ile de France with the Notre Dame, the flowing of the Seine to the Eiffel tower is just barely maintained. Actually, only this tower, meant and built for an exhibition, maintains – regardless of its filigree transparency seen from here – its reputation. What he said is that the Tower justifies its existence in this city only by the deliberately planned vertical tendency – an astonishing feature for that epoch. Naturally, for the city of Paris it meant a symbolic novelty, a city with such a deep historical tradition from the Romans to the very significant eras of the kings, the revolution, the empire, the buildings of the republic after Napoleon III; they are all meaningless, of no importance for the overall structure of the city - with the exception of the Eiffel Tower.<br /><br />At this point, Giesler tells us:<br /><br /><i>Adolf Hitler turned toward us - Speer, Breker and me: "For you a tough time begins: work and pressure, the forming of cities and monuments which are put into your trust. As far as I am able, and can afford the time, I will lighten your work. Bormann will assist me. Look after my artists and keep away from them everything that might obstruct their work."1 And then again to us: "Put everything on Bormann's broad shoulders. He will stand by you."</i><br /><br /><img src="http://carolynyeager.net/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/AH_Le%20Bourget.jpg" /><br />Right: Hitler greets his soldiers when leaving Paris at Le Bourget airport.<br /><br />Returning to their lodgings, Adolf Hitler had more to say about the historical Paris and its architecture. This is how Giesler recalled it:<br /><br /><i>“Similar to Rome, you could read off the historical eras all over that city. Every epoch was manifested in its buildings. The remnants of the Roman founding that only archaeologists and historians can recognize. The Middle Ages, however, represent themselves powerfully in Notre Dame, not only a monument of her time but also of her mighty institution – the Church. The epoch of the worldly power, of the kings and the nobility we drove by this morning, at the Louvre and the Palais. The Revolution – she first tore down the sign of the hated system, the Bastille. For the Empire, for Napoleon I, the Arc de Triomphe symbolizes; for Napoleon III, the work of Haussmann and, strangely, the Opera!<br /><br />“Then nothing more? Oh yes, something decisive – a genius engineer designs a gigantic tower. Is it beautiful? It does not matter, it mirrors his epoch. The occasion was significant – first the World Exhibition, then it stands for the Revolution. A hundred years after 1789, that Tower points to a new time – the time of industrial development. It is a monument of technology, sets its own rule –tectonics unknown up to that date, the building material steel – and thus a new method is recognized. What the tower misses is classicism – stone so uniquely used with the Doric column. We will talk some more about that phenomenon.”</i><br /><br />Giesler remembers being fascinated by Hitler’s analysis and explanation of the Eiffel Tower as a symbol, not just for Paris, but of the new era. It indicates how strongly he felt that history, men and institutions influenced art and architecture and shaped cities. Thirty years later, the explanation remained for Giesler, but not the fascination, which he says was rooted in the presence of Hitler himself. He continues:<br /><br /><i>Adolf Hitler was quiet for a while before he said with a low voice: “At the dome des Invalides, I really absorbed only Napoleon’s sarcophagus at the open Ronda of the crypt. I kept strangely under the spell – everything else was for me meaningless.”</i><br /><br /><i>After a while, he reasoned why he wanted his gravesite in Munich, why I should build it and in what form he wanted it to be built. It surprised me, but still, as a National Socialist, that reasoning made a lot of sense. That he discussed that on the day of the victorious finale of the French battle was certainly caused by the view of Napoleon’s gravesite. But this thought suggested that he was thinking about that for a long time.</i><br /><i>Hitler not surprisingly brought his thoughts again to the present situation and expressed his strong desire for a peace settlement – remembering the end of the destructive Thirty Years War and the Westfalian peace treaty signed in Muenster. Was he comparing the past nearly thirty turbulent years since 1914, and hoping to end it in the same way? Very possibly this was going through his mind.<br /><br />Silently we walked up and down the narrow path through the forest. Then Adolf Hitler stopped and said with great emphasis: "I want peace - and I will do anything to make peace! It is not too late yet. I will go to the limit of the possible as long as the sacrifice and dignity of the German nation allows it. I know of better things than waging war. If I merely think about the loss of German blood - the best always fall, the bravest and the ones willing to be sacrificed; their task should be to exemplify the nation.</i><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq"><i>“I do not need to make a name by war-mongering like Churchill. I would like to make my name as a steward of the German people. I want to secure its unity and Lebensraum, to achieve National Socialism and shape the environment – add to it the new rebuilding of the German cities according to modern knowledge. I would like that the people will be happy there and be proud of their town, their lebensraum, and nation.”</i></blockquote><i>After awhile he said the peace should be signed in Muenster. “I have my reasons for that – it would mean an historical caesura.When I now return to Munich, I have to take the necessary steps for the beginning of the rebuilding of the city – a forward-looking planning in all areas of a city-wide development.” I, and also Speer, would receive orders from him to start immediately with reconstruction. That naturally includes especially the central railway station and the Autobahn circle - they are the prerequisite of further rebuilding of the city. Dr. Todt will receive the order to make the necessary steel available. Then he repeated again: “I will Peace,” and changed the subject.</i><br /><i>At the time of November the 8th, Hitler was worried because of a strange event. I experienced it personally. He asked himself at that time if it was only careless talking and leaking at high military levels, or high treason. No, he is certain it was high treason, and that high treason has been repeated: the deadline, day and hour of the “Weseruebung”3 for securing our Northern flank has been transmitted to the governments of Denmark and Norway.“No, listen,” he said, “also betrayed was the beginning of the battle of France, May 10th.” I was alarmed and wanted to ask …. “No questions, don’t talk about it!”<br /><br />We all joined for the late dinner at the community barrack. June 23rd ended and the armistice began. The trumpet signals Das Ganze halt (All hold) arrived out of the night from different distances. The windows were open. Separate from us, Adolf Hitler stood alone folding his hands. He looked into the darkness. When, long after the signal, he returned to us, he had tears in his eyes. Quietly, with his typical loose move, he said goodbye to us. He lifted his bent arm, the hand upwards-opened, like a greeting of friendship.” ~~</i><br /><br />Who cannot be moved by the poignant and revelatory picture that emerges during this Paris visit of an Adolf Hitler whose deep awareness of history and far-reaching understanding of the role of art and architecture in the lives of peoples and nations, causes him naturally to prefer peace to war? Here is a man who wants to build and beautify, not tear down and degrade, with always his faith in his people, the German people, and his concern for Europe as a whole as his motivation and inspiration. On the tail of a decisive victory, he wanted to make peace, and build a united, anti-communist Europe. It was not to be. The new Europe was instead built on the ashes and rubble of his Germany, and he has been condemned as the destroyer, when he really wanted to be a great builder.<br /><br />Endnotes:<br /><br />1) Reichsleiter Martin Bormann was responsible to execute all of Hitler’s orders in the civil sector. <br /><br />2) Hitler got the message while at Giesler’s office that the military plans for the attack in the West had been betrayed to the Allies. He had to change his plans and postpone it twice, to Spring 1940. Ein Anderer Hitler, Hermann Giesler, page 411: “I ordered the attack for middle November. Then that mysterious betrayal of the planned start of the attack deadline."<br /><br />3) Weseruebung was the code name for the Denmark/Norway invasion.<br /><br />This article was published by The Barnes Review in two parts, in the Nov/Dec 2008 and Jan/Feb 2009 issues.</div>Paul Eisenhttps://plus.google.com/115728519410143369471noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7131950762685846601.post-64122235651082114662015-03-01T12:22:00.002+00:002015-03-01T12:22:57.829+00:00Dennis Harrison - well worth waiting for<b style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large;">This is from the&nbsp;<a href="https://albionbeatnikbookstore.wordpress.com/2015/02/28/the-discordant-who-atzmon-and-debate/">blog of the Albion Beatnik Bookstore</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"> in Oxford and is by the owner of both blog and bookshop, Dennis Harrison.</span></b><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b>It's a review of Gilad's "The Wandering Who" and if you think it's three years too late, I'm telling you, it was well worth waiting for.</b></span></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 22px; line-height: 30px;">The Discordant Who? Atzmon and&nbsp;Debate</span><br /><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-top: 12px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://albionbeatnikbookstore.files.wordpress.com/2015/02/the_wandering_who_texte_2.jpg" sl-processed="1" style="border: 0px; color: #835504; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="The_wandering_who_texte_2" class="alignright wp-image-208 size-full" src="https://albionbeatnikbookstore.files.wordpress.com/2015/02/the_wandering_who_texte_2.jpg?w=547" style="border: 0px; display: inline; float: right; height: auto; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 12px; margin-right: 12px; max-width: 100%;" /></a>I read the other day that Gilad Atzmon’s book&nbsp;<em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Wandering Who?&nbsp;</em>has been taken off the virtual shelves of the&nbsp;<em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Guardian</em>&nbsp;book web site.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-top: 12px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">My first reaction was to be amused that the&nbsp;<em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Guradian</em>ever had a book web site, for it’s a bit like Halfords selling doughnuts or a&nbsp;local corner shop trying to sell insurance: it’s just naff. My second reaction was to congratulate the author. To be castigated by the<em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Guradian</em>, possibly one of the worst newspapers in the western world, is an accolade and is bound to sell books and highlight his&nbsp;pitch. Just because the&nbsp;<em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Guiaradn</em>espouses liberalism, social welfare, justice, world peace, feng shui and climate change doesn’t prevent it from being a bottleneck for all these issues, and to my eyes the paper tilts at windmills and sidetracks the main issues of any story, as ‘good’ liberals tend to do. In other words it has long hair but it isn’t really much of a hippy. Of course it now adds to its CV that it has silenced a voice of dissent, the sort of act one has come to associate with&nbsp;dictatorship and oppression.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-top: 12px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Atzmon is a proud self-hating Jew, a man with foreskin envy who has tried sincerely to come to terms with his road to Damascus discovery: when a young man serving in the Israeli militia in Lebanon he witnessed&nbsp;Palestinian prisoners of war kept in cages like dogs, and he wondered why his&nbsp;nation, born out of concentration camp suffering, could inflict such pain; his external world crumbled when he interpreted Israel to be a tragic Palestinian palimpsest. His prodigious talent as a jazz saxophonist afforded him a passport and he settled in England twenty years ago,&nbsp;never to&nbsp;return to Israel.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-top: 12px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">His&nbsp;book is self-conscious and single-minded in its quarry: it is about Jewish identity politics (as its subtitle declares) and a central theme is to compare it to other forms of marginal identity politics. It does not even broach biological determinism. In fact Atzmon has no beef with, and even has respect for, those who are of the Jewish faith or those who see themselves as of Jewish origin. There may be many problems with the book. One may say that it oversimplifies, it may seek to transport its reader on a magic carpet of conspiracy theory and intrigue and offer no hinterland of proof, it may have only a cartoon grasp of world economics, banking, politics or realpolitik, it may in fact be<em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">wrong</em>. But only rarely does a critic engage the book upon its premise, that Jewish identity for some straddles the&nbsp;Zionist/anti-Zionist divide and has Chaim Weizmann’s dictum that “there are no English, French, German or American Jews, but only Jews living in England, France, Germany or America” as its shibboleth. It seems a relevant issue to address as we have been told recently that, disturbingly, 58% of Jews consider that they have no future in Britain (and that 95% of hate crimes in the UK are anti-Semitic in nature!). I just don’t believe these figures, maybe&nbsp;I am naïve, but if they are to be believed then Atzmon’s book might become an uncomfortable read. Neither is the book without relevance in international affairs&nbsp;as the bombs fell as confetti upon Gaza&nbsp;last year.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-top: 12px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Oddly&nbsp;the&nbsp;<em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Guranida&nbsp;</em>is licking its dog’s bollocks rather late in the day, for&nbsp;<em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Wandering Who?</em>&nbsp;was published over three years ago and to much furore then: a shambolic revolt by&nbsp;some of Atzmon’s Zero Books stablemate authors, a melee of carping reviews and general butt kicking with legal threats unleashed upon the publisher (to their credit they stuck to their guns and published, the obvious anti-precedent being&nbsp;St Martin’s Press’s cold feet after announcing publication of David Irving). Alan Dershowitz had a public spat but drew attention only&nbsp;to Atzmon’s possibly diametric philandering&nbsp;–&nbsp;that he loves Palestine before Israel, loves&nbsp;<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKvRzgCPd4Q" sl-processed="1" style="border: 0px; color: #835504; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">original thought before&nbsp;plagiarism</a>, and allegedly loves his&nbsp;saxophone before Jeffrey Epstein.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-top: 12px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">So all in all I find it rather extraordinary that the book has been removed from the&nbsp;<em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Gi*uckrd</em>&nbsp;office, custodian of liberal thought, and&nbsp;incidentally&nbsp;not so long after Atzmon was prevented from performing in Bonington by Gedling Borough Council, a sort of kangaroo council decision following&nbsp;<a href="http://jeaniebarton.com/anti-semitism-gilad-atzmon-and-nottingham-jazz/" sl-processed="1" style="border: 0px; color: #835504; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">childish allegations by some locals</a>, who included Ross Bradshaw, founder of Five Leaves Publishing and, incredibly, one of the most brilliant&nbsp;booksellers there is. (The dog it was that died, and to&nbsp;ruffle Bradshaw’s jackboot Daniel-in-the-lion’s-den complex with my own&nbsp;crude, knee-jerk reaction, I shall ignore his venomous political correctness that prevented a purely musical performance taking place and that almost left over 100 people bereft of their&nbsp;evening’s entertainment, and I shall continue to stock Bradshaw’s books, an act of irresponsible defiance of his public spitefulness; indeed I once sold one of his books, and he can try and guess to whom.)</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-top: 12px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://albionbeatnikbookstore.files.wordpress.com/2015/02/gilad-6.jpg" sl-processed="1" style="border: 0px; color: #835504; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="gilad 6" class="alignleft wp-image-209 size-medium" height="255" src="https://albionbeatnikbookstore.files.wordpress.com/2015/02/gilad-6.jpg?w=300&amp;h=255" style="border: 0px; display: inline; float: left; height: auto; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-right: 12px; max-width: 100%;" width="300" /></a>Gilad Atzmon is a perplexing figure. He is an international jazz saxophonist, many would argue one of the very finest in the world today, a stature confirmed by his appearance on the latest Pink Floyd album. Yet at the same time he has led&nbsp;a parallel life as author, public speaker and television pundit of renown in a very dangerous discourse. To run two high profile careers has been courageous, and that he has dodged the endless flak that has come his way, including death threat, is a miracle. It may be that his jazz artistry has anointed him with some sort of protection; some argue also that it has allowed him to exploit his position and soft sell what is seen to be his anti-Semitism, though I believe he is straightforward both in what&nbsp;he says and how he says it. The intriguing question is where does his personality end and his argument begin? – a question one can ask of all muckrakers, seekers of the truth, iconoclasts; he certainly takes no prisoners. He may have idiosyncratic thought&nbsp;or strike an argumentative discord, yet he has never dissembled, backtracked or yielded for the sake of a more comfortable life; indeed he has seemed to rejoice in the fevered spotlight and has seen criticism often to be a validation of his argument. Although I understand that what he says is problematic, I am content&nbsp;not to view him as anti-Semitic and equally am content&nbsp;not to agree with all that he says.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-top: 12px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The reaction to Atzmon’s heretical diatribe is to me very confusing. It reminds me how I was confused too by the whole “Je Suis Charlie” episode and remain so, was left with a feeling of unease – as it wasn’t to my mind really about freedom of speech, rather about how we in the west deal with the Muslim world. I felt that it was a bit like being hit on the head by a Marks &amp; Spencer boil-in-a-bag souffle at a Friday evening dinner party in suburbia: freedom of speech should be more than supporting middle class, white, arty people take the piss out of somebody else’s prophet, a stark contrast to the freedom of speech allowed to the Parisian stand-up comic&nbsp;<a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/dieudonn-trial-french-comedian-claims-i-am-being-persecuted-as-he-appears-in-court-for-third-time-in-a-week-10024228.html" sl-processed="1" style="border: 0px; color: #835504; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Dieudonné</a>. When freedom of speech cascades down to sanctioning who can say what when and where, it’s a bit of a thing for dilettantes. It’s back to basics: I can surmise only that the&nbsp;<em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Guardian</em>&nbsp;and Bradshaw are dilettantes in this respect.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-top: 12px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYecmT2GhHQ">Atzmon dealing with protest</a><br /><span style="color: #835504; font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 14px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fOJbWtmBFE">Atzmon in conversation with Paul Eisen part 1</a></span></span>&nbsp;/&nbsp;<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tF3j8f5MX-8">part 2</a><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEDjgdjmCfA">Gilad Atzmon and the Orient House Ensemble in performance</a></div>Paul Eisenhttps://plus.google.com/115728519410143369471noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7131950762685846601.post-69063472088008217252015-03-01T11:04:00.000+00:002015-03-01T11:04:16.795+00:00Pforzheim: the Dresden nobody knows about<span style="font-size: large;"><b>This from <a href="http://www.dw.de/pforzheim-the-dresden-nobody-knows-about/a-18274739">DW</a> is about the bombing of the German town of Pforzheim on February 23 1945<br /><br />I believe Pforzheim was the town closest to, and within earshot of, the home of the six-year old Ernst Zundel. A profound and seminal experience perhaps.</b></span><div><br /></div><div><div class="intro" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 25px; padding: 0px 40px 12px 0px;">At the 70th anniversary of the Allied bombing of Dresden, even the German president showed up. In Pforzheim, a site of comparable destruction, no high-rankers were present - just people out to promote peace.</div><div class="picBox full" style="background-color: white; clear: both; float: none; margin: 7px 0px 10px; padding: 7px 20px 10px 0px; width: 700px;"><a class="overlayLink init" href="http://www.dw.de/pforzheim-the-dresden-nobody-knows-about/a-18274739#" link="/overlay/overlay_image/s-30701/c-18274739/18275543" rel="nofollow" style="color: #0087eb; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="Demonstration in Pforzheim" border="0" height="394" src="http://www.dw.de/image/0,,18275543_303,00.jpg" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; width: 700px;" width="700" /></a></div><div class="group" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 30px;"><div class="longText" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #3e3e3e; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 25px;"><div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; padding: 0px 40px 12px 0px;">After listening to 22 minutes of church bells, the noise can get to you. However, on this rain-soaked evening in Pforzheim, about 40 minutes' drive from the south-western German city of Stuttgart, there was no place for worrying or whining about clamor.</div><div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; padding: 0px 40px 12px 0px;">Thousands of people gathered here on the Platz des 23. Februar (February 23 Square) to remember the day their city was obliterated in 1945. A day for the people of Pforzheim that - judging by the looks on their faces as they laid down candles in the shape of a dove in the middle of the square - can't really be described.</div><div class="picBox medium " style="float: left; margin: 0px; padding: 7px 20px 10px 0px; width: 340px;"><a class="overlayLink init" href="http://www.dw.de/pforzheim-the-dresden-nobody-knows-about/a-18274739#" link="/overlay/overlay_image/s-30701/c-18274739/18275563" rel="nofollow" style="color: #0087eb; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="Demonstration in Pforzheim Melissa" border="0" height="191" src="http://www.dw.de/image/0,,18275563_404,00.jpg" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; width: 340px;" title="Melissa, 11, joined the vigil, standing in front of a peace mural she painted with her third-grade class" width="340" /></a><div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #888888; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 20px; padding: 4px 0px;">Melissa, 11, joined the vigil, standing in front of a peace mural she painted with her third-grade class</div></div><div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; padding: 0px 40px 12px 0px;">"For God, my people and my city," said Ulla, a woman in her 70s, when asked why she came here to lay down a candle. "I was too little to remember, but I know from my family and from what came afterwards how deep this day hurt us," she told DW.</div><div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; padding: 0px 40px 12px 0px;">"We're here to remember," said Larissa, who came with six of her friends. "That's it. You don't have to say anything else," she added as the bells continued to ring, with uncanny seriousness for a 17-year-old.</div><div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; padding: 0px 40px 12px 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal;">22 minutes of hellfire</span></div><div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; padding: 0px 40px 12px 0px;">Between 7:50 and 8:12 p.m. local time on February 23, 1945, RAF aircraft dropped 1575 tons of high explosive and incendiary bombs on Pforzheim, setting off a firestorm that is widely seen as one of the most devastating in military history.</div><div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; padding: 0px 40px 12px 0px;">According to official statistics, 17,600 people died, and tens of thousands of others were injured. The market square and old town area were destroyed and completely depopulated. In the entire city, over 80 percent of the architecture that existed in 1945 was defaced, making Pforzheim, proportionally speaking, the worst instance of destruction at the end of WWII in Europe.</div><div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; padding: 0px 40px 12px 0px;">The&nbsp;<a href="http://www.dw.de/dresden-marks-70-years-since-massive-allied-bombing/a-18257480" style="color: #0087eb; text-decoration: none;">Allied bombardments of Dresden</a>&nbsp;and Hamburg have been well documented and remain in the public consciousness today, both in Germany and abroad. But Pforzheim doesn't.</div><div class="picBox full " style="clear: both; float: none; margin: 0px; padding: 7px 20px 10px 0px; width: 700px;"><a class="overlayLink init" href="http://www.dw.de/pforzheim-the-dresden-nobody-knows-about/a-18274739#" link="/overlay/overlay_image/s-30701/c-18274739/18274498" rel="nofollow" style="color: #0087eb; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="Pforzheim archive (dpa)" border="0" height="394" src="http://www.dw.de/image/0,,18274498_401,00.jpg" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; width: 700px;" title="All it took was 22 minutes to exact the complete annihilation of the town center" width="700" /></a><div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #888888; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 20px; padding: 4px 0px; width: 720px;">All it took was 22 minutes to exact the complete annihilation of the town center</div></div><div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; padding: 0px 40px 12px 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal;">Why Pforzheim?</span></div><div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; padding: 0px 40px 12px 0px;">In the Bomber’s Baedeker, the British Foreign Office's guide to the economic importance of German towns and cities, Pforzheim ranked 57 out of 101 assessed places.</div><div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; padding: 0px 40px 12px 0px;">The city of 80,000 [120,000 today] did not possess any major munitions factories or heavy industry at all, although a tube-rolling plant owned by Metallindustrie Richter was in operation in Pforzheim at the time of the bombing. However, there were a host of technical manufacturing plants and factories that produced, among other things, periscope optics and radio and radar components for German submarines.</div><div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; padding: 0px 40px 12px 0px;">The city was also a major road and rail communications center within the Baden area.</div><div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; padding: 0px 40px 12px 0px;">Does this justify its almost complete annihilation?</div><div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; padding: 0px 40px 12px 0px;">"Why Pforzheim? Is that what you're asking?" a man named Anthony asked. "Do you think anyone here cares about that? That's a question for the politicians and strategists of the time. A question for historians and journalists. A question for people who ask the wrong questions," he said.</div><div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; padding: 0px 40px 12px 0px;">"The rubble from the bombing is still here. It was moved outside the city after the war and buried underneath the ground. Go look for yourself. There's a mound out there called the Wallberg. And it's not the mound the neo-Nazis are on!" Anthony added.</div><div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; padding: 0px 40px 12px 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal;">Up on the hill</span></div><div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; padding: 0px 40px 12px 0px;">Anthony was referring to a counter demonstration of far-right extremists. During the evening's ceremony, around 100 neo-Nazis and right-wing activists had gathered on what's known as the Wartberg, another mound outside the city, to remember the victims of the Allied bombing on their own - in the company of 1,000 police officers.</div><div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; padding: 0px 40px 12px 0px;">At exactly 7:50 p.m., a huge torch was lit on the Wartberg for 22 minutes in remembrance of the dead, a demonstration the greater public here finds repulsive, however.</div><div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; padding: 0px 40px 12px 0px;">"We cannot fathom what they want. They are just frustrated people up there who say Hitler was right," said Marta, with her daughter and son standing next to her. "We can only pray and hope that they will stop thinking like this, that's all," she said, adding that such thinking was the ultimate reason Pforzheim was burned to the ground.</div><div class="picBox full " style="clear: both; float: none; margin: 0px; padding: 7px 20px 10px 0px; width: 700px;"><a class="overlayLink init" href="http://www.dw.de/pforzheim-the-dresden-nobody-knows-about/a-18274739#" link="/overlay/overlay_image/s-30701/c-18274739/18274784" rel="nofollow" style="color: #0087eb; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="Pforzheim (http://de.wikipedia.org)" border="0" height="394" src="http://www.dw.de/image/0,,18274784_401,00.jpg" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; width: 700px;" title="The Wallberg mound on the outskirts of town is a perpetual reminder of the destruction" width="700" /></a><div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #888888; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 20px; padding: 4px 0px; width: 720px;">The Wallberg mound on the outskirts of town is a perpetual reminder of the destruction</div></div><div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; padding: 0px 40px 12px 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal;">Wiped from the map?</span></div><div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; padding: 0px 40px 12px 0px;">A year after the end of WWII, author Alfred Döblin, one of Germany's most important modernists, wrote of Pforzheim:</div><div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; padding: 0px 40px 12px 0px;"><em>Utterly vanished from the surface of the earth, razed completely to the ground, smashed to bits and pieces. No soul left here. Pforzheim - you have been wiped from the world's atlas.</em></div><div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; padding: 0px 40px 12px 0px;">"We are here tonight to bear witness to Pforzheim's resurrection, to the irrefutable fact that Pforzheim is still here," Manfred, whose parents were kilometers away in the neighboring village of Öschelbronn when the raid took place, told DW.</div><div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; padding: 0px 40px 12px 0px;">The reason Manfred came out to Monday's vigil, however, was about more than mere remembrance.</div><div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; padding: 0px 40px 12px 0px;">"Hate is where all this began," he said, visibly moved. "And it caused our city's destruction 70 years ago. You think I'm just going to let neo-Nazis march around here? We are not going to let hate destroy us ever again."</div></div></div></div>Paul Eisenhttps://plus.google.com/115728519410143369471noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7131950762685846601.post-21707661527351172302015-02-28T14:36:00.002+00:002015-02-28T14:44:43.797+00:00The myth of the Khazar conversionI have no definitive idea where Jews come from but the way people go on you'd think the idea of European Jews coming originally Khazaria had been around forever. Well it hasn't. Sure the idea was first proposed quite a while ago in Arthur Koestler's "The Thirteenth Tribe" but for years that was hardly known and, where it was, it was seen as a somewhat marginalised, almost cranky theory. Suddenly it's all the rage and maintained as if it were some undeniable scientific fact. Well it isn't.<br /><br />That's one reason for this post.<br /><br />Another is that the speaker here seems to be a really nice non-ideological Jew - a hard commodity to come by these days - so for that reason alone, it's a pleasure to post him.<br />&nbsp; <iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="510" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/PYbycYgjnSU" width="854"></iframe>Paul Eisenhttps://plus.google.com/115728519410143369471noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7131950762685846601.post-55908947362205817622015-02-28T12:39:00.000+00:002015-02-28T16:20:10.428+00:00Nick Kollerstrom: Breaking the SpellThis is Nick Kollerstrom on Red Ice Radio talking about the Holocaust and his new book: "Breaking the Spell - The Holocaust:Myth and Reality".<br /><br />Nick is one of a small but growing group of British revisionists who have begun the first British revisionist website "What Really Happened". Although I don't count myself as a revisionist (I just don't have the scholarship) I regularly meet with them and it's always a huge pleasure.<br /><br />The book, published by Germar Rudolf is like the website, a British first. I've read it and I know Nick quite well and what I like about it is what I like about Nick - meticulous and comprehensive scholarship delivered with a warm, irreverent humanity.<br /><br />If you have a penchant for truth-telling, courageously told, listen to Nick&nbsp;<a href="http://www.redicecreations.com/radio/2015/02/RIR-150225.php">here</a>,&nbsp;buy the book <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Breaking-Spell-Holocaust-Reality-Handbooks/dp/159148071X/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1425121630&amp;sr=8-2&amp;keywords=breaking+the+spell">here</a>&nbsp;(kindle <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Breaking-Spell-Holocaust-Myth-Reality-ebook/dp/B00Q8UK8BM/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1425121630&amp;sr=8-3&amp;keywords=breaking+the+spell">here</a>) and visit the website <a href="http://www.whatreallyhappened.info/">here</a><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-HMsk4eEddzE/VPGjPqc7BiI/AAAAAAAADJA/CjxUSu7VwPo/s1600/BREAKING%2BTHE%2BSPELL.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-HMsk4eEddzE/VPGjPqc7BiI/AAAAAAAADJA/CjxUSu7VwPo/s1600/BREAKING%2BTHE%2BSPELL.jpg" height="640" width="432" /></a></div><br />Paul Eisenhttps://plus.google.com/115728519410143369471noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7131950762685846601.post-70213670258891366752015-02-27T14:41:00.001+00:002015-02-27T14:55:12.735+00:00Edgar Steele in prisonEdgar Steele's dead now. He died in prison on September 4th 2014. I suppose he would be commonly termed a "White Supremacist" though my guess he would see himself more as a white realist.<br /><br />Anyway, when I watched these prison interviews (this is the first of four parts) I warmed to his intelligence and articulacy. See what you think.<br /><br />&nbsp; <iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="510" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/PnSy4iEQiPU" width="854"></iframe>Paul Eisenhttps://plus.google.com/115728519410143369471noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7131950762685846601.post-66853714703714140812015-02-27T10:52:00.000+00:002015-02-27T10:53:31.379+00:00Lenni Brenner interviews Rabbi Joachim PrinzThis recorded interview is by Jewish Marxist historian Lenni Brenner with Rabbi Joachim Prinz.<br /><div><br /></div><div>Brenner has been a fervent Jewish activism but, as far as I can see in these interviews, he keeps his inclinations well under control.<br /><br />Joachim Prinz was a major Zionist leader in Germany in the thirties and was prominent in the negotiations with the NS authorities.<br /><a href="http://cosmos.ucc.ie/cs1064/jabowen/IPSC/clips/clip512Part1.mp3">http://cosmos.ucc.ie/cs1064/jabowen/IPSC/clips/clip512Part1.mp3</a><br /><br /><a href="http://cosmos.ucc.ie/cs1064/jabowen/IPSC/clips/clip512Part2.mp3">http://cosmos.ucc.ie/cs1064/jabowen/IPSC/clips/clip512Part2.mp3</a><br /><br /><a href="http://cosmos.ucc.ie/cs1064/jabowen/IPSC/clips/clip512Part3.mp3">http://cosmos.ucc.ie/cs1064/jabowen/IPSC/clips/clip512Part3.mp3</a><br /><br /><br /><br /></div>Paul Eisenhttps://plus.google.com/115728519410143369471noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7131950762685846601.post-16996094102849068552015-02-26T13:13:00.001+00:002015-02-26T13:38:08.148+00:00Don't ask, don't tellThis is the first (of four) part of a radio discussion featuring Catholic writer and in my view, theologian E. Michael Jones. I hope when you've heard it, you'll listen to the other four parts and then you'll go on to learn more about what he has to say<br /><br />The discussion is about the decision a few years back, to repeal the "Don't ask, don't tell" policy by which a blind eye was turned to the presence of homosexuals in the American armed forces. The idea was that after repeal, homosexuals were to be as welcome in the forces as was anyone else. Michael Jones sees this as an important step towards the later legislation permitting gay marriage.<br /><br />But I don't think that's what the discussion is really about. I think it's more about the ways people are controlled and even more, the way the notion of 'freedom' is used to promote its absolute opposite.<br />&nbsp; <iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="510" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/RcnsM7QtZ8I" width="854"></iframe> <br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/--LYrxEdzRuc/VO8a0qwGyrI/AAAAAAAADIk/A-fBRE71E7M/s1600/e%2Bmike%2Bjones.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/--LYrxEdzRuc/VO8a0qwGyrI/AAAAAAAADIk/A-fBRE71E7M/s1600/e%2Bmike%2Bjones.jpg" height="222" width="320" /></a></div><br />Paul Eisenhttps://plus.google.com/115728519410143369471noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7131950762685846601.post-3081308019000724932015-02-26T09:56:00.002+00:002015-02-26T10:02:15.896+00:00Laurence Easeman - A man without fearThis is Laurence Easeman, truly a man without fear.<br /><br />Laurence is racially conscious and, amongst other things, an opponent of abusive Jewish power.<br /><br />You can hear Laurence on some of these things on the great Red-Ice Radio <a href="http://www.redicecreations.com/radio/2014/11/RIR-141124.php">here</a>&nbsp;but before you do, watch this clip. I did, and all I can say is that if ever I'm in a tricky situation, I hope I have Laurence Easeman by my side.<br /><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="510" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/FPKOa-5GPPg" width="854"></iframe>Paul Eisenhttps://plus.google.com/115728519410143369471noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7131950762685846601.post-32277242716489042142015-02-25T18:03:00.002+00:002015-02-25T18:03:47.503+00:00They speak from the heart...Love 'em or hate 'em (I'm not mad keen on them) these folks speak from the heart.<br /><br />&nbsp; <iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/q90kmUbEv7c?feature=player_embedded" width="640"></iframe><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="510" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/MFE0qAiofMQ" width="854"></iframe> <iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/QpQgJBmgymM?feature=player_embedded" width="640"></iframe> <iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="510" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/x5Ntc42QpjQ" width="854"></iframe>Paul Eisenhttps://plus.google.com/115728519410143369471noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7131950762685846601.post-10832298804151639912015-02-25T16:38:00.002+00:002015-02-25T16:38:44.713+00:00Prescient as ever.<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="510" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/VbgoUKKmcEM" width="854"></iframe>Paul Eisenhttps://plus.google.com/115728519410143369471noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7131950762685846601.post-46845518268735927122015-02-25T16:13:00.000+00:002015-03-01T12:39:13.059+00:00So which is it?<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-x9pAYuNMqT4/VO3yNGwgA9I/AAAAAAAADII/VCN89vjoRS8/s1600/ELie.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-x9pAYuNMqT4/VO3yNGwgA9I/AAAAAAAADII/VCN89vjoRS8/s1600/ELie.jpg" height="370" width="640" /></a></div><br />In a piece of nonsense in Ha'aretz&nbsp;the writer wonders how someone as ethical as Elie Wiesel can support something so unethical as Israeli behaviour (If you really want to, you can read it <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-1.643037">here</a>)<br /><br />It reminds me how on occasions people (often loved ones) will wonder how someone as nice as me can write things as horrible as I write. I always reply that either I'm not so nice or the things I write aren't so horrible.<br /><br />So Ha'aretz, Elie Wiesel. So which is it?<br /><br /><br />Paul Eisenhttps://plus.google.com/115728519410143369471noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7131950762685846601.post-12683665759471386622014-11-23T14:26:00.000+00:002014-11-23T14:30:23.295+00:00A struggle for the soul of the Jewish people?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>This is what Winston Churchill was saying before he took the Jewish shilling.</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>Marxists will hate it, Zionists will love it... but what will simple truth-tellers make of it?</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-3vVbHbRnufw/VHHahGtXsRI/AAAAAAAADEY/oRtaP3DUOnY/s1600/zionvsbolchurchill.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-3vVbHbRnufw/VHHahGtXsRI/AAAAAAAADEY/oRtaP3DUOnY/s1600/zionvsbolchurchill.gif" height="322" width="640" /></a></div><br /><br /><h3><span style="font-size: x-large;">Zionism versus Bolshevism.</span></h3><h3>A Struggle for the Soul of the Jewish People<br />By the Rt. Hon. Winston S. Churchill.</h3><br />SOME people like Jews and some do not; but no thoughtful man can doubt the fact that they are beyond all question the most formidable and the most remarkable race which has ever appeared in the world.<br /><br />Disraeli, the Jew Prime Minister of England, and Leader of the Conservative Party, who was always true to his race and proud of his origin, said on a well-known occasion: "The Lord deals with the nations as the nations deal with the Jews." Certainly when we look at the miserable state of Russia, where of all countries in the world the Jews were the most cruelly treated, and contrast it with the fortunes of our own country, which seems to have been so providentially preserved amid the awful perils of these times, we must admit that nothing that has since happened in the history of the world has falsified the truth of Disraeli's confident assertion.<br /><br /><b>Good and Bad Jews</b><br /><br />The conflict between good and evil which proceeds unceasingly in the breast of man nowhere reaches such an intensity as in the Jewish race. The dual nature of mankind is nowhere more strongly or more terribly exemplified. We owe to the Jews in the Christian revelation a system of ethics which, even if it were entirely separated from the supernatural, would be incomparably the most precious possession of mankind, worth in fact the fruits of all other wisdom and learning put together. On that system and by that faith there has been built out of the wreck of the Roman Empire the whole of our existing civilization.<br /><br />And it may well be that this same astounding race may at the present time be in the actual process of producing another system of morals and philosophy, as malevolent as Christianity was benevolent, which, if not arrested, would shatter irretrievably all that Christianity has rendered possible. It would almost seem as if the gospel of Christ and the gospel of Antichrist were destined to originate among the same people; and that this mystic and mysterious race had been chosen for the supreme manifestations, both of the divine and the diabolical.<br /><br /><b>'National' Jews</b><br /><br />There can be no greater mistake than to attribute to each individual a recognizable share in the qualities which make up the national character. There are all sorts of men -- good, bad and, for the most part, indifferent -- in every country, and in every race. Nothing is more wrong than to deny to an individual, on account of race or origin, his right to be judged on his personal merits and conduct. In a people of peculiar genius like the Jews, contrasts are more vivid, the extremes are more widely separated, the resulting consequences are more decisive.<br /><br />At the present fateful period there are three main lines of political conception among the Jews. two of which are helpful and hopeful in a very high degree to humanity, and the third absolutely destructive.<br /><br />First there are the Jews who, dwelling in every country throughout the world, identify themselves with that country, enter into its national life and, while adhering faithfully to their own religion, regard themselves as citizens in the fullest sense of the State which has received them. Such a Jew living in England would say, "I am an English man practising the Jewish faith." This is a worthy conception, and useful in the highest degree. We in Great Britain well know that during the great struggle the influence of what may be called the "National Jews" in many lands was cast preponderatingly on the side of the Allies; and in our own Army Jewish soldiers have played a most distinguished part, some rising to the command of armies, others winning the Victoria Cross for valour.<br /><br />The National Russian Jews, in spite of the disabilities under which they have suffered, have managed to play an honorable and useful part in the national life even of Russia. As bankers and industrialists they have strenuously promoted the development of Russia's economic resources, and they were foremost in the creation of those remarkable organizations, the Russian Co-operative Societies. In politics their support has been given, for the most part, to liberal and progressive movements, and they have been among the staunchest upholder of friendship with France and Great Britain.<br /><br /><b>International Jews</b><br /><br />In violent opposition to all this sphere of Jewish effort rise the schemes of the International Jews. The adherents of this sinister confederacy are mostly men reared up among the unhappy populations of countries where Jews are persecuted on account of their race. Most, if not all, of them have forsaken the faith of their forefathers, and divorced from their minds all spiritual hopes of the next world. This movement among the Jews is not new. From the days of Spartacus-Weishaupt to those of Karl Marx, and down to Trotsky (Russia), Bela Kun (Hungary), Rosa Luxembourg (Germany), and Emma Goldman (United States), this world-wide conspiracy for the overthrow of civilization and for the reconstitution of society on the basis of arrested development, of envious malevolence, and impossible equality, has been steadily growing. It played, as a modern writer, Mrs. Webster, has so ably shown, a definitely recognizable part in the tragedy of the French Revolution. It has been the mainspring of every subversive movement during the Nineteenth Century; and now at last this band of extraordinary personalities from the underworld of the great cities of Europe and America have gripped the Russian people by the hair of their heads and have become practically the undisputed masters of that enormous empire.<br /><br /><b>Terrorist Jews</b><br /><br />There is no need to exaggerate the part played in the creation of Bolshevism and in the actual bringing about of the Russian Revolution, by these international and for the most part atheistical Jews, it is certainly a very great one; it probably outweighs all others. With the notable exception of Lenin, the majority of the leading figures are Jews. Moreover, the principal inspiration and driving power comes from the Jewish leaders. Thus Tchitcherin, a pure Russian, is eclipsed by his nominal subordinate Litvinoff, and the influence of Russians like Bukharin or Lunacharski cannot be compared with the power of Trotsky, or of Zinovieff, the Dictator of the Red Citadel (Petrograd) or of Krassin or Radek -- all Jews. In the Soviet institutions the predominance of Jews is even more astonishing. And the prominent, if not indeed the principal, part in the system of terrorism applied by the Extraordinary Commissions for Combating Counter-Revolution has been taken by Jews, and in some notable cases by Jewesses. The same evil prominence was obtained by Jews in the brief period of terror during which Bela Kun ruled in Hungary. The same phenomenon has been presented in Germany (especially in Bavaria), so far as this madness has been allowed to prey upon the temporary prostration of the German people. Although in all these countries there are many non-Jews every whit as bad as the worst of the Jewish revolutionaries, the part played by the latter in proportion to their numbers in the population is astonishing.<br /><br /><b>'Protector of the Jews'</b><br /><br />Needless to say, the most intense passions of revenge have been excited in the breasts of the Russian people. Wherever General Denikin's authority could reach, protection was always accorded to the Jewish population, and strenuous efforts were made by his officers to prevent reprisals and to punish those guilty of them. So much was this the case that the Petlurist propaganda against General Denikin denounced him as the Protector of the Jews. The Misses Healy, nieces of Mr. Tim Healy, in relating their personal experiences in Kieff, have declared that to their knowledge on more than one occasion officers who committed offenses against Jews were reduced to the ranks and sent out of the city to the front. But the hordes of brigands by whom the whole. vast expanse of the Russian Empire is becoming infested do not hesitate to gratify their lust for blood and for revenge at the expense of the innocent Jewish population whenever an opportunity occurs. The brigand Makhno, the hordes of Petlura and of Gregorieff, who signalized their every success by the most brutal massacres, everywhere found among the half-stupefied, half-infuriated population an eager response to anti-Semitism in its worst and foulest forms.<br /><br />The fact that in many cases Jewish interests and Jewish places of worship are excepted by the Bolsheviks from their universal hostility has tended more and more to associate the Jewish race in Russia with the villainies, which are now being perpetrated. This is an injustice on millions of helpless people, most of whom are themselves sufferers from the revolutionary regime. It becomes, therefore, specially important to foster and develop any strongly-marked Jewish movement which leads directly away from these fatal associations. And it is here that Zionism has such a deep significance for the whole world at the present time.<br /><br /><b>A Home for the Jews</b><br /><br />Zionism offers the third sphere to the political conceptions of the Jewish race. In violent contrast to international communism, it presents to the Jew a national idea of a commanding character. it has fallen to the British Government, as the result of the conquest of Palestine, to have the opportunity and the responsibility of securing for the Jewish race all over the world a home and centre of national life. The statesmanship and historic sense of Mr. Balfour were prompt to seize this opportunity. Declarations have now been made which have irrevocably decided the policy of Great Britain. The fiery energies of Dr. Weissmann, the leader, for practical purposes, of the Zionist project. backed by many of the most prominent British Jews, and supported by the full authority of Lord Allenby, are all directed to achieving the success of this inspiring movement.<br /><br />Of course, Palestine is far too small to accommodate more than a fraction of the Jewish race, nor do the majority of national Jews wish to go there. But if, as may well happen, there should be created in our own lifetime by the banks of the Jordan a Jewish State under the protection of the British Crown, which might comprise three or four millions of Jews, an event would have occurred in the history of the world which would, from every point of view, be beneficial, and would be especially in harmony with the truest interests of the British Empire.<br /><br />Zionism has already become a factor in the political convulsions of Russia, as a powerful competing influence in Bolshevik circles with the international communistic system. Nothing could be more significant than the fury with which Trotsky has attacked the Zionists generally, and Dr. Weissmann in particular. The cruel penetration of his mind leaves him in no doubt that his schemes of a world-wide communistic State under Jewish domination are directly thwarted and hindered by this new ideal, which directs the energies and the hopes of Jews in every land towards a simpler, a truer, and a far more attainable goal. The struggle which is now beginning between the Zionist and Bolshevik Jews is little less than a struggle for the soul of the Jewish people.<br /><br /><b>Duty of Loyal Jews</b><br /><br />It is particularly important in these circumstances that the national Jews in every country who are loyal to the land of their adoption should come forward on every occasion, as many of them in England have already done, and take a prominent part in every measure for combating the Bolshevik conspiracy. In this way they will be able to vindicate the honor of the Jewish name and make it clear to all the world that the Bolshevik movement is not a Jewish movement, but is repudiated vehemently by the great mass of the Jewish race.<br /><br />But a negative resistance to Bolshevism in any field is not enough. Positive and practicable alternatives are needed in the moral as well as in the social sphere; and in building up with the utmost possible rapidity a Jewish national centre in Palestine which may become not only a refuge to the oppressed from the unhappy lands of Central Europe, but which will also be a symbol of Jewish unity and the temple of Jewish glory, a task is presented on which many blessings rest.Paul Eisenhttps://plus.google.com/115728519410143369471noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7131950762685846601.post-63344692283275863272014-11-23T14:20:00.001+00:002014-11-23T14:26:00.128+00:00At the sound of the siren....<span style="font-size: x-large;">I've written about this </span><span style="font-size: x-large;">before <a href="http://pauleisen.blogspot.co.uk/2013/11/blog-post.html">here</a></span><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: x-large;">This stuff is important. Why? Because it's just one of the reasons why Jews and Israelis have managed to do what they've done.</span><br /><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="390" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/OeozUSWdoQA" width="640"></iframe>Paul Eisenhttps://plus.google.com/115728519410143369471noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7131950762685846601.post-68273916903694221612014-11-23T14:12:00.003+00:002014-11-23T14:12:42.615+00:00Joshua Blakeney interviews Greg Johnson<span style="font-size: x-large;">This is Joshua Blakeney interviewing Greg Johnson, the eloquent voice of the New Right. You can visit his excellent website <a href="http://www.counter-currents.com/">Counter-Currents Publishing</a></span><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: x-large;">Joshua Blakeney is, to my mind, the most effective and engaging interviewer around today and Dr. Greg Johnson one of the most interesting thinkers.&nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: x-large;">Unlike the conventional wisdom which looks to solve the problem of Jewish supremacism (nobody's done it yet), Dr Johnson looks to it being managed.&nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: x-large;">I also found his take on Zionism particularly interesting and rather similar to that of that&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: x-large;">crazy bunch of visionaries like Theodore Herzl, Max Nordau and Israel Zangwill who laid&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: x-large;">their Zionist dream&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: x-large;">before an incredulous world.</span><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: x-large;">For Dr Johnson, if all the Jews in the world lived in one place (and without foreign subsidy) ....well, Jews being Jews, things wouldn't be perfect but they might be a lot better than they are now.&nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: x-large;">Do check it out.</span><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="440" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/ixZOKxaN0dQ?list=UUp6AZnSXblJgezDHpPu2ZGg" width="660"></iframe>Paul Eisenhttps://plus.google.com/115728519410143369471noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7131950762685846601.post-49964202969780286432014-10-26T16:58:00.001+00:002014-10-26T16:58:13.339+00:00Khalid Mishal in Vanity Fair<div class="title cn_title" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><h1 class="headline " style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; clear: both; color: black; font-family: ltc-bodoni-175-1, ltc-bodoni-175-2, 'Times New Roman', Times, Georgia, serif; font-size: 32px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.1; margin: 0px 0px 7px; padding: 0px;">From&nbsp;<a href="http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/2014/10/khalid-mishal-hamas-interview">Vanity Fair</a></h1><h3><span style="font-size: x-large;">Hamas’s Khalid Mishal on the Gaza War, Tunnels, and ISIS</span></h3><h3>The leader of Hamas presents his case, and refuses to denounce those suspected of murdering three Israeli teenagers.</h3>Interview by <a href="http://www.vanityfair.com/contributors/adam-ciralsky">Adam Ciralsky</a><br /><img src="http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/2014/10/khalid-mishal-hamas-interview/.i.1.s-khaled-mashaal-interview.jpg" /><br />BY KHALED DESOUKI/AFP/GETTY IMAGES.<br /><br />Admittedly, it was an unorthodox way to spend Rosh Hashanah: in the company of a man who, as head of Hamas, has overseen kidnappings, rocket attacks, and suicide bombings that have claimed the lives of hundreds of Israelis. In fact, as a reporter covering a particularly bloody spate of violence during the spring of 2002, I can recall watching first responders, armed with tweezers, literally picking up the pieces of Hamas’s handiwork.<br /><br />The 58-year-old former physics teacher assumed the reigns of Hamas in 2004 after Israel’s back-to-back assassinations of his predecessors. Khalid Mishal had his own brush with death seven years earlier, in September 1997, when, in one of the most over-engineered assassination attempts in espionage history, a squad of Mossad operatives approached him on the streets of Amman, Jordan, and sprayed a lethal toxin into his left ear. The fiasco that followed—in which Israel turned over an antidote in exchange for the release of the would-be assassins—established Mishal as a player within Hamas and laid the groundwork for what, 17 years later, remains a palpable loathing for the man who ordered the hit: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.<br /><br />Upon arrival at Mishal's residence in Doha, Qatar—which serves as both home and office—I am obliged to give security officers my bag. They also disable my cell phone. Mishal then settles in for a two-hour interview, portions of which appear here.<br /><br /><b>Vanity Fair: I thought maybe we’d start with your thoughts about the allied campaign in Syria, which was formerly the home to Hamas. What are your thoughts about the U.S.-led coalition against ISIS?</b><br /><br />Khalid Mishal: I spent some of the most important years of my life in Syria. A big part of Hamas’s course was shaped there, and I am pained by what the country is going through today. . . . Much of what’s happening does not serve the interests of regional countries and their people. Indeed, we are against ideological, political, or military extremism. We are for moderation. We are against any aggression, or any killing of innocent human beings, regardless of their beliefs or race.<br /><br />We believe in the right to resistance against the occupation. This is a legitimate right of the people, as with the Palestinian people. Any people that come under foreign occupation have the right to resistance. But random killings on all fronts, and extremism, this is something we’re against. This, however, is not something that can be resolved by forming coalitions like the one we have today, which is led by the United States. . . . Biased U.S. foreign policies toward Israel, and its policies in the region over the last few years, is also a form of extremism. Extremism is condemned, irrespective of who is wielding it.<br /><br />As for what happened this past summer, with the war in Gaza, the numbers are pretty high. Twenty-one hundred Palestinians are dead. Over 20,000 houses destroyed. Do you consider this summer’s war with Israel to be a victory?<br /><br />Netanyahu, because of his cabinet’s internal problems and because of the public anger against him, opted to escalate the situation in Gaza. He sought to score a victory over his political opponents and in front of the Israeli people, so he carried out his aggression. . . .<br /><br />Victims did fall, true. But, we did not launch a war based on some calculations, then discovered that we incurred losses. The war was imposed on us and we simply defended ourselves . . . we are saddened by the loss of lives, but who should bear responsibility? It’s the Israelis: politicians, military, and security leaders. As for us, we stood our ground in this war. We thwarted Netanyahu’s plot.<br /><br />The steadfastness showcased by Gaza is a victory. It sent a message to the world that there is something called the “Palestinian cause” . . . that the occupation must be brought to an end, that the settlements’ expansions must stop, and that the blockade on Gaza must be lifted.<br /><br /><b>Let’s talk about something that played a key part in the war: the tunnels that begin in Gaza, go underneath the border, and into Israel. What was their objective?</b><br />In light of the balance of power, which is shifted toward Israel, we had to be creative in finding innovative ways. The tunnels were one of our innovations. The Israeli army is stronger than us. It possesses a great destructive power. It has airplanes, artillery. It possesses the strongest weapons arsenal in the region. Therefore, what Hamas and other resistance factions are doing in Gaza, with the full support of our people, is just an attempt to ensure the necessary means to protect our people. . . . The tunnels come in this context, that of putting more obstacles in the way of any Israeli attacks, and enabling the resistance in Gaza to defend itself.<br /><br />These tunnels are routinely referred to in the Palestinian press as attack tunnels, offensive tunnels. They start in Gaza, and they exit near civilian communities, Kerem Shalom, Ein Hashlosha, and I think 14 different communities. How is that defending yourself? On multiple occasions in the last year, Hamas operatives I believe belonging to the “Nukhba” (Elite forces) tried to enter Israel to carry out attacks. What can you tell us about that?<br /><br />Please note when we used these tunnels. We used them when Israel waged war against us. So the tunnels may have been outwardly called offensive tunnels, but in actual fact, they are defensive ones. If those were offensive tunnels, Hamas would have used them before the war. But, when Israel carried out its aggression against us, we used the tunnels to infiltrate behind the back lines of the Israeli army, which is waging war on Gaza. This is the first point.<br /><br />The second one is, yes, true. There are Israeli towns adjacent to Gaza. Have any of the tunnels been used to kill any civilian or any of the residents of such towns? No. Never! [Hamas] used them either to strike beyond the back lines of the Israeli army or to raid some military sites such as Nahal Oz. Hamas filmed this operation and aired the footage on TV networks. This proves that Hamas is only defending itself, is engaged in a war of self-defense.<br /><br /><b>There are a number of sources who say Hamas actually planned to use these tunnels to carry out a mass attack, simultaneously sending operatives through the tunnels and into Israel. This was one of the justifications for the war [and] one of the reasons that Israel was worried about shutting down the tunnels. Did Hamas have a plan to attack civilian communities in Israel in parallel?</b><br />The Israeli leadership is lying. Evidence of this is that when they declared war on Gaza, they did not declare the tunnels as part of the military targets. But when they discovered the tunnels, this is when they started to raise the issue. This proves that they first started the war, and then looked for justifications. This is the first point.<br /><br />The second one is, if what Israeli leaders are claiming is correct—that Hamas dug those tunnels to attack the Israeli towns and kill civilians—how come Hamas hasn’t done that during the war?<br /><br /><b>Earlier this week [late September 2014], Israeli forces in the West Bank killed two men, Marwan Qawameh and Amer Abu Aisha, who have been linked to the death of three Israeli teenagers who were abducted and killed in June. What’s your reaction to this news?</b><br /><br />This is of course a very sad news. Today, I called the father of “martyr” Marwan and the mother of “martyr” Amar, and members of the two families. I offered them my condolences. All praise to God, I found that their morale was high.<br /><br />Israel is accusing those two heroes of murdering the settlers a few months ago. But Israel is killing our sons all the time . . .<br /><br /><b>So, is it not right that they are the ones who killed the three?</b><br />I did not say that. I did not deny. I just said Israel is accusing them.<br /><br /><b>And if it turned out that they were the killers?</b><br /><br />Even if they did kill, in the end, I said the Palestinian people are defending themselves. I am just saying that the heroes of the resistance in Palestine are engaged in resistance against the occupation army and the settlers, those who live on unlawful land in the West Bank. This is occupied land by virtue of international law, and even by American law. The presence of the Israeli army and the settlers on this land is therefore illegitimate. There are 600,000 settlers in Jerusalem and in the West Bank who are unlawfully living there. Most of them are armed. That’s why, the Palestinian people have the right to defend themselves and resist the occupation, whether this occupation is exercised by the army or by armed settlers.<br /><br /><b>You’ve referred to these men as “martyrs,” as heroes. You said in the past few weeks that you were unaware of the plan to kidnap and kill these kids. But it sounds as though you’re saying it was perfectly appropriate to kidnap and kill three teenagers. Is that correct?</b><br /><br />The answer is clear. When this operation took place last June, I then said in remarks to the media that we had no information. I could neither confirm nor deny. Later on, and as the Israeli investigations have shown, it turned out that a Hamas field group in the West Bank had killed those three settlers. So, this was indeed an operation executed by a Hamas group. We now have specific information. [The] question now is: Was this operation legitimate or not? This was a legitimate operation. Why? I told you. It is the right of the lawful owners of the land in the West Bank, whether they are from Hamas, or from some other group, to engage in resistance against the occupiers, whether they are the Israeli military or settlers. It’s as simple as that.<br /><b><br />Would you have blessed the operation in advance?</b><br />We work according to a certain methodology. It’s important to understand this methodology. In the leadership of Hamas, we never give orders to execute this operation—or stop that one. We present general policies: that there is an occupation and part of our strategy is to resist this occupation. Somebody might say, “But don’t you have any control over those working in the field?” Of course we do. When we agree on a ceasefire, for example, this becomes a decision from the leadership of the movement, and those working on the ground must abide by it. But the leadership does not interfere with the execution, or with ordering this operation to be carried out, and that one not to.<br /><br />Y<b>ou keep talking about civilians as illegitimate targets, and settlers are a legitimate target. During this war, Hamas fired 4,500 rockets all over Israel toward all sorts of civilian populations. If you believe that only people in occupied parts of the country should be targeted, why were rockets landing all over the state of Israel?</b><br /><br />Good question. Good question. When did we fire those rockets? We fired them when Israel began its aggression and its war on Gaza. That means we did that under the right of self-defense. One last point: when Hamas possesses smart and highly accurate rockets, you’ll see that it will only strike military targets.<br /><br /><b>Your point is that you don’t control these missiles that are inaccurate. Correct? Something that is under your control has to do with where you spend money, where you devote resources. How do you respond to the criticism that you could have built bomb shelters for your people, you could have built hospitals with the money that it took to build these tunnels? How do you respond to that criticism that your resources were spent on attack tunnels, not on defending your own people?</b><br /><br />When the rockets are fired out of Gaza, they are fired on military targets. The accuracy of such rockets, however, is limited. So, they sometimes miss their targets. That’s why when we acquire the smart, accurate rockets, striking of military targets will be more accurate.<br /><br />Secondly, we spend part of our funds on services for our people. The whole world agrees, and even before Hamas came to power, that the movement had an edge over other parties in providing social services to its people. It built hospitals, schools, universities, and nursery schools. It also built workshops for needy families. This is Hamas’s long legacy in the service of its people. An important part of its program and its resources goes toward these services.<br /><br />But there is another side to [the Hamas] program. [In many other nations] part of the budget is also spent on defense policies: to strengthen the army, to buying arms. The same goes for Hamas. A small part of our resources is dedicated to defending ourselves, because we still live under occupation. This is only natural. Hamas spends here and there.<br /><br />As for the allegations that our spokespersons are hiding behind our people in the hospitals, this is incorrect. The role of the Palestinian resistance is to protect its people, and not seek refuge behind its people, and use them as human shields. This is an Israeli lie. The resistance is making a lot of sacrifice for the sake of the people, and not the other way around.<br /><br /><b>Throughout the war, Egypt was proposing a ceasefire. And on various occasions when Egypt would propose this ceasefire, Hamas rejected it. How do you respond to the allegations that you would have saved many, many Palestinian lives if you, Hamas, accepted a ceasefire earlier on?</b><br /><br />Let me put you before the following facts. First of all, before the Egyptian ceasefire initiative was proposed, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, pursued some efforts with the foreign ministers of Qatar and Turkey. He requested from them to establish contact with Hamas leadership in a bid to negotiate a ceasefire. We cooperated with such efforts, and negotiations took place. Subsequently, the Egyptian initiative came into being . . . [but] we had not been consulted about the Egyptian initiative. There were no negotiations with us over its terms. That’s the first thing. The other thing is that this initiative was built on the principle that all hostilities must first come to an end, and then negotiations can begin. Our opinion was that we needed to negotiate first in order to determine the specific terms based on which a ceasefire could take place. Such terms were essentially based on lifting the blockade, reopening the border crossings, and giving our people normal living circumstances. Israel rejected this at first. Then Egypt and the Israelis agreed to hold talks in Cairo, and when such talks started, we reached specific terms for a ceasefire. This is exactly what happened. Those who must be held accountable for the killing of Palestinian children and women are the Israeli leaders.<br /><br /><b>What is Hamas’s picture of a perfect solution [to the Palestinian cause]? What would it be if you had your way? What does that look like? Negotiations—and at the end of the day you have a solution? Is that two states? Is that one state? Because there is a perception when you read the Palestinian media there is a lot of talk about killing Jews, killing Americans.</b><br /><br />[In English] From Hamas?<br /><br /><b>Sure.</b><br /><br />Hamas’s position and its principles are clear. We do not seek to kill Jews or any other people of any faith, nationality, or race. We are only engaged in resistance against those who occupy our land, regardless of their religious beliefs or race. We do not kill Israelis because they are Jews. We kill them because they are occupiers. They occupied our land and have transgressed against us. This falls in the context of self-defense and defending our land. This is a legitimate right recognized by all religions and by international laws. That’s the first point.<br /><br />Secondly, Hamas is containing its struggle within Palestine. We killed no Americans, or Europeans. Nor did we kill anyone else in the East or in the West. Our battle is on Palestinian land, because this is where the occupation and the settlements are. Why did the Americans start their revolution centuries ago? And why have the French fought the Nazis? Why did South Africans struggle to achieve their freedom? Those are peoples’ rights.<br /><br />Thirdly, Hamas announced many years ago, that it agrees with other Palestinian forces on reaching a settlement on the basis of the 1967 borders. We agreed to a Palestinian State on the basis of the border of June 4, 1967, and its capital Jerusalem, along with the right of the returnees. This is a joint Palestinian program among Hamas, Fatah, and all the other Palestinian factions. What more does the world wants us to do?<br /><br />In brief, we will not pin any hopes on anybody in the world. If the international community does not help us achieve our freedom, we will achieve it ourselves, and by all means—through the resistance in all its forms, including the armed resistance, through politics, diplomacy, public mobilization, and through knocking on all doors. This is our responsibility. The Palestinian people will not give up their struggle until they get rid of the occupation. This is the truth.<br /><br /><b>One of the points that you made in your answer is that Hamas hasn’t targeted or hasn’t killed Americans or Jews. Just this week, a jury in the United States in New York issued a civil judgment against the Arab Bank for paying money to people who carried out attacks on behalf of Hamas against 300 different people, many of them are American Jews—not Israeli citizens, American Jews. That’s why the case was brought in New York. How do you respond to that, and what, if anything, do you have to say about the Arab Bank case?</b><br />Look. The case against the Arab Bank is an unjust one. When some charities transfer sums of money to Palestinian families, even if those were families of martyrs or prisoners detained in Israeli prisons, this is not a crime. These are families, human beings. They have the right to live. The claim that Hamas has killed Americans is a blatant lie. If the U.S. administration believed that Hamas was killing Americans, it would have had a different stance. They know that Hamas is strictly fighting the Israeli occupation.<br /><br /><b>Maybe you can solve a mystery that has been in the air since the end of the war. Is Mohammed Deif [the chief of Hamas’s military wing] alive or is he dead?</b><br />Mohammed Deif is alive. Israelis failed to kill him. But they succeeded in killing his wife and his two children. Mohammed Deif is still alive, and will continue to fight the Israeli aggression and occupation. Inshallah.<br /><br /><b>But he hasn’t made an appearance anywhere, so nobody has seen proof that he is alive</b>.<br /><br />We have proof. It’s not important the others have it. Mohammed Deif is not a politician in order to make public appearances. He’s a military man who hardly ever turned up in public, even before the war.<br /><b><br />Final question.</b><br /><br />[In English] Good. Good news.<br /><br /><b>Do you have a message for your old foe, Netanyahu? Do you have something that you want to say to him in the wake of the war?</b><br /><br />I don’t have a message for Netanyahu, because he is a criminal, and he is responsible for the war on Gaza. He and the Israeli leadership committed war crimes against our people in Gaza. But I have two messages, one to the world’s great powers, and especially the United States: that its global dominance puts political and moral responsibilities on its shoulders. On top of these responsibilities is the need to put an end to the longest, or let me say, the last occupation in the world, and that is the Israeli occupation. This is a moral responsibility.<br /><br />The second message is to the Israeli people. Your leadership is lying to you, and is leading you to failed adventures. War crimes are being perpetrated against the Palestinian people in your name. This will not provide you with any security, peace, or stability. It will not secure any future for you.<br /></div>Paul Eisenhttps://plus.google.com/115728519410143369471noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7131950762685846601.post-14715837237182936122014-10-24T11:00:00.001+01:002014-10-24T11:37:11.792+01:00Just dunno...<span style="font-size: x-large;">This is&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: x-large;">also from&nbsp;</span><a href="http://theuglytruth.wordpress.com/2014/10/23/the-devil-in-the-details-netanyahus-100-year-war-against-militant-islam-as-the-death-blow-to-western-civilization/" style="font-size: xx-large;">The Ugly Truth</a><span style="font-size: x-large;">&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: x-large;">It's Mark Glenn writing about Benjamin Netanyahu and </span><span style="font-size: x-large;">I suppose, in writing about Netanyahu in this way he would see all supremacist Jews in the same light.&nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: x-large;">For my part, I can't entirely reject the characterisation but I can't completely accept it either.</span><br /><div><br /><h3><span style="font-size: x-large;">The Devil in the Details–Netanyahu’s 100 Year War against ‘militant’ Islam as the death blow to Western Civilization</span></h3><br /><a href="https://theuglytruth.files.wordpress.com/2014/10/netanyahyu12.jpg"><img src="https://theuglytruth.files.wordpress.com/2014/10/netanyahyu12.jpg?w=620" /></a><br /><br />The most dangerous thing about Benjamin Netanyahu–and no one should make the mistake of thinking he’s anything otherwise–is that he appears ‘normal’ by human standards. He speaks with a ‘human’ voice, seems to have all the required ‘human’ hardware &amp; behaviorisms and in general is able to pass muster in his daily interactions with others. Best guess is that he has skin rather than scales, eyelids rather than slits, and doesn’t slither on his belly from point A to point B…<br /><br />The truth however is that all of this ‘humanism’–for lack of a better word–attributed to/associated with Netanyahu is just an illusion of sorts, and the world–for the sake of its own collective life and limb–would be best served by turning a blind eye and deaf ear towards black magic such as this.<br /><br />Despite a few outward superficialities, there is nothing ‘human’ about ‘Bibi’, nor about those who hold membership in his exclusive streetgang.<br /><br />Like the ravenous wolf dressed as the harmless old lady in the childrens’ story, his true nature is something else entirely…Otherworldly and subterranean…A living, breathing nightmare, oceans-deep with rich, horrific detail or some dark, foreboding chapter out of either Poe or Stephen King. A wild animal in an expensive suit, ‘King Bibi’ is the stuff of Apocalyptic warnings from centuries past, where prophets went mad forecasting a future time of monsters in human form prowling about the world and remaking it into something more to their liking–soaked in blood, scorched with fire and teaming with every type of human suffering imaginable…The type that causes Satan to beam with hopeful pride while simultaneously giving God worry lines and chest pains, he’s the ‘human’ equivalent of the rabid canine that the local sheriff is periodically called out to shoot for the sake of a terrified townspeople. Better suited for either a zoo or a laboratory, specimens like Netanyahu are those whose deeds eventually become so record-breakingly evil in their size and scale that they become permanently burned into the collective memory of man like some mental scar that is passed down generation after generation. He’s the ‘businessman’ whose private deal with the devil takes place each morning while staring into the mirror, a ‘true believer’ in the most dangerous sense of the word, similar to the cyborg featured in The Terminator films who doesn’t need to be pushed or prodded when it comes to inflicting violence against innocent people, given that the program loaded onto his mental/spiritual harddrive is write-protected and impervious to any outside tampering.<br /><br />This–his ability to blend in with his human surroundings and thus escape detection–is singularly the most important component making him the danger to the civilized world that he is. A beast walking on 2 legs, it is his chameleonesque ability to replicate the outward appearance of humanness that has provided him with the keys to the kingdom and membership to a club where he does not belong, a tragedy due more to the cooperative blindness of his soon-to-be victims rather than to any curse from heaven or quirk of fate.<br /><br />But besides the truly terrible nature of his nature making him the clear and present danger that he is, it is all the extra baggage he carries with him that portends the worst. While it’s true that humanity has never suffered a shortage of anti-social individuals with ‘bad attitudes’, nevertheless given their lack of resources and inferior positioning on the economic and political chessboard means that the misery they’re able to inflict on large numbers of people is for the most part mitigated.<br /><br />Obviously not so with Netanyahu. Head of the largest crime family in human history, with life-or-death power over not just millions, but indeed billions of people arising out of the stranglehold he and his cousins maintain over economics, media and politics, he keeps a terrified world in line with the threat of lighting off some (or all) of the 400 nukes that he and his loyal disciples have smuggled into every world capital over the course of the last several decades. Leaders from every country–from the U.S. to the U.K. to the U.A.E.–doubtless have had it explained to them in infallibly explicit language that as far as he and his demands are concerned, every request–be it money, political protection or increased war for Israel’s benefit–is an offer that no one can refuse, for the simple reason that when Bibi hears the word ‘no’, bad things happen. Economies crash. Bombs blow up at marathon events. Planes fly into skyscrapers or computer systems that manage and maintain critical infrastructure functions such as powergrid, clean water, or those preventing meltdowns at nuclear powerplants go haywire.<br /><br />But again, more dangerous than Netanyahu’s inherently violent, vicious and volcanic nature (paired with his ability to make good on the Judaic voodoo he threatens from time to time) is the manner by which he is misunderstood by most of his would-be victims. Rather than being feared for the deadly, highly-venomous viper that he is, instead he is mocked, jeered, ridiculed, made the butt of jokes and in general taken no more seriously than one of the highly-neurotic characters featured on the television series Seinfeld. In an obviously clear, unequivocal warning to the ‘civilized’ world concerning what kind of unpleasant fate awaits mankind if his demands are not met, he personally orders and oversees–in broad daylight–the butchering of more than 2,000 human beings in Gaza and yet few hear or understand the language being used…Standing before the United Nations and on full display before 14 billion eyes and ears the world over he wields cartoon drawings conveying his personal promise to incinerate every square inch of God’s green earth unless 75 million Iranians are mass-murdered in a real-life/real-time/real-deal re-enactment of the Judaic blood-festival Purim, and rather than this threat being recognized for what it is, instead it is treated like stand-up comedy appearing on an episode of Saturday Night Live. With obvious sneering and condescension, pundits and commentators around the world snicker at the entire spectacle, not realizing that as they do so, a 200 megaton gun is being pointed at their heads and that in the end–barring some act of God–Nutty Netty will be the one having the last laugh the moment he lights the fuse and walks away.<br /><br />What can be said about all of this, other than ‘it is what it is…’ Rarely has any tidal wave of evil–in this case, psychopaths hijacking ships of state and deliberately steering them over the cliff and into the abyss–beset mankind throughout history where there weren’t clear warning signs that trouble was coming. Mother Nature may indeed be unpredictable when it comes to her oftentimes temperamental mood swings, but as far as the dark side of human nature goes, more often than not the tic-tic-ticking sound of a human time bomb about to go off is hard to avoid hearing.<br /><br />Nevertheless, as history–and especially present day events–has all-too-tragically shown, people can be convinced (seduced) into believing that the tic-tic-ticking sound they clearly hear is but a figment of their imagination, thus giving otherworldly/subterranean creatures such as Netanyahu the passive cooperation they need in conjuring forth their particular brand of murder and mayhem. Few and far between are those willing to trust what their common sense tells them and recognize the danger for what it is vs. those multitudes who ignore the thunderous noise of the onrushing waters until it is upon them and there is no escaping it.<br /><br />The difference now of course is that the waters in question are deeper, faster and more lethal. Never before in human history has so much violent, Apocalyptic power resided in the hands of so few people who were free to do so much damage with so little effort.<br /><br />And–just like his dangerous nature that should not be underestimated–neither should people underestimate the length and breadth to which Netanyahu plans to take all of this at days’ end, an awareness that can only begin with knowing that the one thing which he does best and loves the most is war.<br /><br />Just as the profile of some infamous crime lord is incomplete without including background scenery such as money laundering, prostitution, drugs, bribery, murder, etc, likewise an accurate accounting of Benjamin Netanyahu remains informationally anemic without mentioning his abnormal appetite for state-sponsored mass-murder, otherwise known as war. Simply stated, take this aspect out of any discussion featuring Netanyahu and there is nothing left to discuss.<br /><br />For ‘Bibi’–the latest incarnation in a long line of King David wannabes–war is his beating heart, (if he has one) his lifeblood (if he has any) and the electrical current that powers his mental functions, if indeed any exist. Envisioning himself the great, great grandson of biblical warrior kings such as Moses, Joshua et al, who ‘made their bones’ (at least as recounted within the pages of Jewish ‘holy’ texts such as Exodus, Leviticus, Deuteronomy, Numbers, etc) by fulfilling the commands of Yahweh to ‘slaughter them all and utterly destroy them’ and to ‘save nothing alive that breathes’ and all the rest of the biblical madness which Israel uses in justifying the Gentile-cide that she perpetrates in the region, war on behalf of the Jewish state is as sacred to Netanyahu as Holy Communion is to Catholics or Salat is to Muslims. Whereas within the ‘civilized’ world, war is considered a pestilence and is viewed only through the lenses of dread, regret, reluctance, reservation, etc, for Netanyahu war is playtime, and the various killing fields over which he has personally presided–from Gaza to Syria to Iraq and beyond–are his playgrounds. While the sights and sounds of deliberately inflicted human suffering and carnage cause civilized others to recoil in horror, for Bibi &amp; co they are a source of spiritual electrification, similar in many respects to the excitement felt by prospectors once gold has been found. Like the High Priest featured in Mel Gibson’s Apocalypto who rouses the fervor of his flock to a state of religious hyper-mania by cutting out the living, beating hearts of innocent human victims, so too do Netanyahu and his fellow acolytes achieve the same type of psychological climax in knowing that the god of Israel–as depicted within the various ‘holy’ books of Judaism–is appeased and satiated with the rivers of blood shed in his honor.<br /><br />Therefore, when he talks about Iran being destroyed, what he means is I-R-A-N B-E-I-N-G D-E-S-T-R-O-Y-E-D, brick by brick, bone by bone…Likewise Syria, Lebanon, Turkey, Iraq, Jordan, town after town, city after city, country after country and–if necessary–continent after continent, wherever the religiously-mandated ritual of Gentile-cide may be practiced, as if all of it were some type of installment plan attached to a debt that–according to the accounting firm of Israel, Israel &amp; Israel–can never be paid off.<br /><br />The fact that Netanyahu is a ‘purist’ when it comes to the business of Armageddon–and no one should make the mistake of thinking he is anything otherwise–is clearly evident in the various snarlings and growlings attributed to him over the years but which have been mischaracterized by the Gentile world as meaningless political meanderings with no deeper implications attached. Indeed, just as with the infamous ‘bomb-gonna-go-boom’ cartoonery he utilized at the UN General Assembly in 2012 conveying the threat of Judaically-induced holocaust against Gentiledom if his demands regarding war with Iran and others are not met, likewise have there been numerous other instances where Mr. 666 talks with the mouth of a man but speaks the language of the beast.<br /><br />And if ever there were an instance where the world should have perked up its ears and honed in on that tic-tic-ticking sound of a human timebomb about to blow, it was in June of 2012, a mere few months prior to his well-known incident at the UN, where Netanyahu, like some crime boss giving orders to his assembled caporegimes, addressed a gathering of pro-Zionist operatives in the U.S. via telecom and discussed the manner by which ‘militant Islam’ would be defeated by the end of the 21st century.<br /><br />Not by the end of the year or end of the decade, but end of the century.<br /><br />For those who don’t get the math here, what this means is that a war that began when the 21st century was a mere newborn baby still in diapers, a war that’s already destroyed the lives of millions of people, decimated the global economy, stopped human progress dead in its tracks and set 1.5 billion Christians and 1.5 billion Muslims (collectively making up nearly 1/2 of the world’s population) at each others’ throats is–according to Netanyahu’s timetable–‘jes gettin’ warmed up,’ with another 88 years to go.<br /><br />And let no one be fooled by his use of the term ‘militant’ as a qualifying adjective in describing Islam. Like his bomb cartoon brandished at the UN, this was typical gangsterese on his part, i.e. saying one thing but meaning another…Rabbinical sleight-of-hand and a spell of sorts meant to hypnotize the collective Gentile mind and prevent it from understanding what kind of devastating Judaic black magic he and his fellow wizards have cooked up in their caldron of Zionist intrigue.<br /><br />His use of the term ‘militant’–meant to materialize in the Gentile mind imagery of ISIS, ISIL, Al Qaeda, etc–in actuality is an all-encompassing term meaning any and all followers of Islam. To Netanyahu &amp; co, the ‘militant’ Muslim is the Palestinian boy who throws rocks at IDF terrorists who just shot his mother and baby sister in cold blood…It is the young Iraqi woman who–despite seeing her country obliterated after 20 years of Israeli-engineered war, nevertheless–insists upon maintaining her chastity and wearing her hijab…It is nations such as Iran, Syria, Libya (before its destruction) and others who insist upon remaining sovereign, stable countries, as opposed to those such as Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia et al who have surrendered their necks over to the vampire and in the process become mere handpuppets to global Zionist designs.<br /><br />In short, to Netanyahu (and to those who share his vision of the future) ‘militant’ Islam is any organized barrier–spiritual, political, economic, social or moral–to the same deadly Z-Ebola contagion that has decimated the nations of the ‘Christian’ West. Just as all social order within the once-vibrant Christian civilizations has been transformed into an extended real-life/real-time/real-deal re-enactment of The Walking Dead as a direct result of the town well being poisoned with the toxic, fecal-laden moral sludge flowing out of the synagogue, so too is this the only form of Islam that Netanyahu &amp; co find ‘acceptable’. As carriers of a deadly spiritual virus that cannot exist in a sterile, anti-biotic environment, Netanyahu &amp; co understand that Judaism and Islam occupying the same space on this late, great planet earth is simply not possible. Whereas Christianity–given its fatal attachment to the same Torah that serves as the beating heart and lifeblood of the entire Judaic structure–provides organized Zionist interests a ‘back door’ through which hackers may surreptitiously enter and hijack the religion based upon the teachings and personhood of Jesus Christ for their own criminal purposes, Islam however contains no such liabilities. In Islam, there is no depiction and celebration of founding fathers such as Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Moses, Joshua, et al being thieves, liars, murderers, usurers, war criminals, etc, in the same manner by which they are represented in Judeo-Christianity and which forms the basis upon which the entire Zionist narrative rests.<br /><br />Therefore, given that no such depictions exist within Islam that can be used in penetrating, subjugating, degenerating, mutating, debaucherizing and bastardizing it so as to bring it ‘into the fold’ as a cooperative family member alongside Judeo-Christianity, the only way it can be dealt with is through war.<br /><br />The devoted followers of Judaism–understanding that it is an all-or-nothing pradigm that has no place in its lexicon for ideas such as ‘live and let live’–understand therefore that Islam cannot be permitted to continue as a pure and incorrupt ideology, but must instead either be made sick and weak through a century of war so as to mitigate its influence in world affairs or else be eradicated from the planet in its entirety.<br /><br />And this, the Apocalyptic, far-reaching implications of Netanyahu’s 100 year war against ‘militant’ Islam, is the devil in the details that few–especially in the West–seem to grasp. The peoples of the once-Christian West, basking in their unrivaled power–economic, political, military, etc–fail to see that–contrary to what their bought-and-paid-for religious leaders tell them–it is not ‘God’ who has blessed their civilization with such largesse, but rather the most dangerous crime family ever to exist in human history. A century ago, just prior to this, the ‘Jewish Century’ (as described by writer Yuri Slezkine) the time period scheduled to serve as the 100 year gladiatorial game between Christianity and Islam, organized Zionist interests began the process of seizing control of the various power centers of the West, after which time steroids cooked up within the temples, lodges and synagogues were pumped into the body of Western Civilization so as to create this present monster-in-human-form that had but one purpose–to prowl about the world and remake it into something more to the liking of Judaism’s eternal aims–soaked in sacrificial blood, scorched with sacrificial fire and teaming with every type of sacrificial human suffering imaginable.<br /><br />Equally tragic is the fact that the West–in acting as the dutiful, loyal un-hired hand for the synagogue in rampaging through the Islamic world and eradicating the one remaining block of resistance to the same system of institutionalized evil which prophets of old went mad foretelling, at the same time what these worshipers of the beast fail to understand is that this 100-year campaign against Islam actually has 2 intended victims, the 2nd one being Christianity itself. By setting the 2 peoples–who collectively make up nearly half the world’s population–at each others’ throats, what organized Jewish interests hope to achieve is the killing of two birds with one stone. 100 years of ceaseless, bankrupting war can only result in the complete economic and political meltdown of the aggressor civilization that can then only result in its own ruination. As a civilization ostensibly built around the teachings and personhood of Jesus Christ, it will cease to exist as such, leaving only Judaism as the dominant influence in world affairs, and as such, the synagogue and its ruling class, the Sanhedrin, will have finally achieved what did not materialize 2,000 years ago with a mafia-hit against a Galilean carpenter that backfired.<br /><br />To many, a scenario as Apocalyptic as this, brought into being by a mere string of words requiring no more than 5 seconds in speaking and coming out of the mouth of a mere man seems implausible. Accustomed to associating big things only with big beginnings, many are–to their own detriment–incapable of joining together images such as raging infernos and tiny sparks.<br /><br />Such skeptics would do well however to remind themselves that similar conflagrations throughout history–before war became the instant, on-demand product that it is now–began in similar ways, including one that destroyed the lives of tens of millions of people that began with one bullet fired by an assassin named Gavrilo Princep in 1914.<br /><br />Indeed, in many dramatic and traumatic events throughout history, it is the details–including (or especially) those coming out of the mouths of nightmarish creatures such as Netanyahu–that often matter, the small things that seem to escape the notice of the average ear and the average mind, but which in essence are the corners, closets and crevices that serve as hiding places for the devil.</div>Paul Eisenhttps://plus.google.com/115728519410143369471noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7131950762685846601.post-86069970982325369122014-10-23T18:09:00.001+01:002015-02-20T10:22:07.919+00:00Peculiarly Jewish?<div><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: x-large; font-style: normal;">This picture and caption from the website&nbsp;</span><a href="http://theuglytruth.wordpress.com/2014/10/16/6000-years-of-anti-semitism-explained-in-a-photographic-microsecond/" style="font-size: xx-large; font-style: normal;">The Ugly Truth</a><span style="font-size: x-large; font-style: normal;">&nbsp;is preoccupying me.&nbsp;</span></em></div><div><em></em></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-4q0QWl19vcs/VEf6xHZ9ClI/AAAAAAAADD4/Y48iW99taQU/s1600/PECULIARLY%2BJEWISH.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-4q0QWl19vcs/VEf6xHZ9ClI/AAAAAAAADD4/Y48iW99taQU/s1600/PECULIARLY%2BJEWISH.jpeg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">In this one picture, one sees the difference between the Jew and the Gentile. He, the stark, raving maniac, and she, the horrified, confused non-jew trying to make sense of this barking dog. <br /><br />Whether it is biblical Egypt or modern day Gaza, the reaction to these people and their behavior throughout history has been a constant, and for reasons all too easy to understand when looking at this snapshot.</span></b></td></tr></tbody></table><div><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: x-large;">Ever since the recent assault on Gaza I've been pondering whether there was anything 'peculiarly Jewish' about it.&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: x-large;">And now this picture comes along posing much the same question.</span><br /><br /></div><div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; display: inline !important;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">It also ties in with something else I've been wondering: How is it that the non-Jewish world has, for so often and for so long, found it impossible to deal with us Jews?</span></span></div></div><div><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></span></div><div><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; display: inline !important;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">I've even asked well-known Gentile activists like David Duke and all I've got are protestations along the lines of "Oh, you Jews, you're just too clever for us"...or more baldly: "We Gentiles, we're just too nice...we just can't comprehend that anyone could behave like that."</span></span></div></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; display: inline !important;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></span></div></div><div><div style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><em></em></span></div></div><span style="font-size: x-large;">So, leaving aside the obvious appearance of the two protagonists, is there anything peculiarly Jewish in the man's behaviour - and is there anything peculiarly Goyish in the woman's response?</span><br /><div style="font-style: italic;"></div></div><div><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></em><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; display: inline !important; font-style: normal;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></em></div><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></em></div><div><br /></div>Paul Eisenhttps://plus.google.com/115728519410143369471noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7131950762685846601.post-47891810483399034362014-10-22T16:54:00.003+01:002014-10-22T19:04:13.269+01:00"Have I got the right place?" - A terrorist hands himself in<span style="font-size: x-large;">The terrorist here is Nick Kollerstrom&nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: x-large;">I know Nick quite well and a more rational, peaceful, indeed, law-abiding chap you'd be hard pressed to find.&nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: x-large;">All in all, he's everything they fear.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="390" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/BS0GjENf_Q8" width="640"></iframe></span> <iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="390" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/UbzkF-TWIFw" width="640"></iframe>Paul Eisenhttps://plus.google.com/115728519410143369471noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7131950762685846601.post-43814509408510998892014-10-22T10:59:00.000+01:002014-10-22T12:50:38.495+01:00Jon Stewart at his bullying worst<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="510" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/3-KBFuobhDk" width="854"></iframe>Paul Eisenhttps://plus.google.com/115728519410143369471noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7131950762685846601.post-25492029702477108352014-10-21T20:17:00.000+01:002014-10-21T20:17:34.878+01:00The War That Had Many Fathers<div><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="510" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/HBLgZAv_Iqo" width="854"></iframe></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: x-large;">You've seen the film, now read the book:</span></div><div>http://www.amazon.co.uk/1939-The-That-Many-Fathers/dp/144668623X/ref=sr_1_cc_1?s=aps&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1413918926&amp;sr=1-1-catcorr&amp;keywords=the+war+that+had+many+fathers</div><div><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div>Paul Eisenhttps://plus.google.com/115728519410143369471noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7131950762685846601.post-70951234096241645992014-10-21T09:28:00.000+01:002014-10-21T10:45:18.269+01:00Interview with Dr Milena Rampoldi of ProMosaik<div><span style="font-size: x-large;">This is an interview&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: x-large;">with Dr Milena Rampoldi of the website&nbsp;</span><a href="http://www.promosaik.blogspot.de/2014/10/paul-eisen-interviewed-by-promosaik-ev.html" style="font-size: xx-large;">ProMosaik</a>&nbsp;<span style="font-size: x-large;">about the recent British 'recognition' of a Palestinian state.&nbsp;</span></div><div><div><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: x-large;">The website is excellent and Milena is a joy to work with but I was interested in her choice of title - so interested that I wrote:</span></div><blockquote class="tr_bq"><i><span style="font-size: large;">"It’s interesting (and perfectly okay with me) that you choose the only ‘as a Jew’ part of my response for the title of what is essentially a political response to a political question which could be answered by anyone.</span></i><i><span style="font-size: large;">&nbsp;</span></i><i><span style="font-size: large;">As I said, that’s absolutely fine with me, but my only real expertise that isn’t freely available elsewhere is that I know what it feels like to be a Jew and I’m prepared to tell."</span></i></blockquote><br /><br /><h3><span style="font-size: x-large;">Stop before it’s too late. This is my message to my fellow Jews.</span></h3></div><div><br /></div><b><span style="font-size: large;">1- What do you think will change in the world order if Western Nations will recognize the Palestinian State? </span></b><br />As thing are, probably very little. The entire West is under Jewish political control (which in this day and age, means Zionist control). Notice how even the opposition is under control. For example, BDS, the most ‘successful ‘ civil opposition to Israel so far, is funded by George Soros, a soft Zionist. As we say in England, “He who pays the piper calls the tune” <br /><br />And I think the same is true for wishful charades like the recent vote in the British parliament. Firstly, though largely unreported, over half the House of Commons was absent for the vote, the absentees being mainly Conservative (The ruling party) MPs and remember, 80% of all Conservative MPs are members of Conservative Friends of Israel. So the vote in no way represents the opinion of the British political elites <br /><br />But even the mainly Labour and Liberal Democrat support for ‘recognition’ is all but useless. After all, how many of those MPs who voted for recognition really want true Palestinian liberation? Did their ‘recognition’ define the borders of this new state and the borders of Israel? Did it account for the huge Jewish settlements that already take up so much of any proposed Palestinian state? And what about the Right of Return, does this recognition of a Palestinian state depend on Palestinians giving up 78% of their own homeland? <br /><br />But most importantly, how will this new state be armed? Will it be able to defend itself or will it lie defenceless under the guns of the Israeli military? We know who will defend Israel against Palestinians but who will defend Palestine against Israel? <br /><br />And who will dominate the area economically? Judging by Israel’s past intentions towards the Palestinians, what will Israeli economic dominance mean for Palestinians? My guess is they’ll be given food to eat, video games to play and work to do in Israeli industrial parks <br /><br />All in all, such playacting such as this ‘recognition’ is simply a new, and more palatable, way of neutralizing Palestinian resistance and getting the Palestinians to go into the cage peacefully <br /><br /><br /><b><span style="font-size: large;">2- How important is the recognition of Palestine by the UK? </span></b><br /><br />The real answer to your question is that yes, this charade of recognition, lulling the Palestinians and the world into a false sense of progress, IS of huge importance- but only to Israel and its supporters and then only as a further step towards the final conquest of Palestine. <br /><br /><br /><b><span style="font-size: large;">3- What do you think will change in the UK society? </span></b><br /><br />Depends what you mean by ‘society’. If you mean the ruling elites, nothing much will change, except for a token turn in the eternal good cop/bad cop squabble between those who want to eliminate Palestinians in Palestine completely and those who want them to go into the cage quietly. But if you mean the ordinary people – well, again pretty much nothing. The people will continue to do as they are told, except that the growing resentment against Jewish/Zionist control will grow just that little bit more, just as it has been doing for years. Will that resentment show itself? It certainly will and when it does, the results may not be pretty. Remember, when Jewish power is finally confronted, it won’t be done by nice folks like you, me and your readers – it will be done by the mob whether on the streets or on the internet and all Jews, including the relatively innocent, will pay the price of their leaders’ perfidy <br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><b>4- Which impact will the recognition of Palestine have for Muslims and Jews in the UK? </b></span><br />On the surface, relations between the Muslim and Jewish elites seem good. Underneath, Muslims are seething with rage, not only about Israeli behaviour in Palestine but also about Jewish and Zionist influence in western policy towards the whole Muslim world. So, on the surface, this charade may seem to improve Muslim/Jewish relations, underneath it will, in the end, only inflame them more. <br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><b>5- How just and absolutely necessary is the recognition of Palestinian State for you as a Holocaust-Denier, as you name yourself? </b></span><br />First it’s important that I clarify my naming of myself as a ‘Holocaust Denier”. <br /><br />“Holocaust denier” is usually a term of abuse, used to imply that those who question the Holocaust narrative are crazy people who believe that nothing bad at all ever happened to Jews - a bit like ‘flat-earthers’. This is not true of all Holocaust revisionists and certainly not true of me. I do ­not deny that there was a terrible assault by National Socialist Germany on Europe’s Jews, nor do I deny that many Jews, innocent and guilty, suffered and died. In fact, the real story of discrimination, incarceration and deportation moves me far more than the standard Holocaust with its premeditated, planned and industrial extermination of Europe’s Jews with its iconic gas-chambers and magical six million <br /><br />I am a Holocaust denier because for me, the Holocaust narrative as currently constructed, maintained and enforced is a godless, idolatrous and abusive ideology bringing misery to the world and disaster to my fellow Jews guilty and innocent alike and, as such, I want to put as much distance between it and myself as I can - so I deny it. <br /><br />But to answer your question, of course, the recognition of any Palestinian state, whether real or a sham, has nothing whatsoever to do with the veracity or otherwise of the Holocaust narrative which is (or should be) simply a matter of historical inquiry. After all, what possible relevance is there between hydrogen cyanide traces in brickwork and what is happening in the Middle East? But, for me as someone who ‘denies’ the godless, abusive Holocaust narrative, the struggle in Palestine means a great deal. <br /><br />Palestinians are by no means the only victims of Jewish power though, along with the German people, they are the main and most pressing ones, so obviously any strengthening of the Palestinian position will weaken Jewish power and therefore weaken the power of the Holocaust. And conversely any weakening in the power of the Holocaust, must strengthen the position of the Palestinians. So for me, as a ‘Holocaust denier’ any true achievement of Palestinians’ (or indeed any other victims of abusive Jewish power) liberation is a matter for celebration – and any false or obfuscating liberation, as with these recent events in Britain, are a matter for concern <br /><br /><br /><div><span style="font-size: large;"><b>6- Do you think that a general recognition of Palestine by Western Nations will stop Israeli violence, or do you think Zionist Israel will start a new invasion? </b></span><br /><br />The Israelis have shown themselves pretty immune to world opinion. Of course there are transitory limits and, as we have seen, the current limits seem to be at about the 2000 plus Palestinian dead as was reached in the recent Gaza atrocity. Or was it perhaps that, given Hamas resistance, the limit was the unacceptable Israeli casualties that any further ‘boots on the ground’ operations would have entailed? However all in all, Israelis and the Jewish elites around the world that egg them on, don’t seem to give a damn what the world does or thinks. <br /><br />By the way, this is a very common feature in Jewish history. For all our seeming astuteness in maintaining our survival, we Jews have one fatal ethnic flaw – we never know when to stop. We are never able to look into the eyes of the other and know when he/she has had enough. <br /><br />Stop before it’s too late. This is my message to my fellow Jews. <br /><br /><br /><br /></div>Paul Eisenhttps://plus.google.com/115728519410143369471noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7131950762685846601.post-20111430319603995802014-10-04T10:40:00.001+01:002014-10-04T10:46:37.283+01:00Hellstorm<span style="font-size: x-large;">I'm just reading Thomas Goodrich's 'Hellstorm' subtitled "The Death of Nazi Germany 1944-1947". It's some story and I recommend you read it. In the meantime, listen to this.</span><br /><br /><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="510" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/CFgNxNInsd8" width="854"></iframe>Paul Eisenhttps://plus.google.com/115728519410143369471noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7131950762685846601.post-63095246281732880572014-10-02T19:41:00.000+01:002014-10-02T19:44:52.142+01:00Peter Hitchens on the latest war <span style="font-size: x-large;">This is by British journalist <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2772161/PETER-HITCHENS-Dragged-war-clowns-run-railway.html">Peter Hitchens writing in The Daily Mail</a>.&nbsp;</span><br /><div><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: x-large;">Hitchens is &nbsp;one of the very few mainstream truth-tellers in the western world. Pat Buchanan is another but I can't think of any more off the top of my head. I suppose John Pilger comes close, though he still seems to follow the lefty/liberal post-war, post-Holocaust line.</span><br /><div><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: x-large;">Here, Hitchens treats the latest war in the Middle East and UK policy just as it should be treated - with complete and utter contempt- and I agree with him.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: x-large;">But I'd like to add a proposal: &nbsp;If the West really wants to deal with the events in the Middle East and lessen the threat to the West, I'd make two recommendations:&nbsp;</span></div><div><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: x-large;">1) Bring Israel under control&nbsp;</span></div><div><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: x-large;">2) Start serious but friendly negotiations with ISIL, Assad, Hezbollah, Hamas, Fatah, the Kurds, Peshmerga, Iran, Libya, Iraq, Jordan, - in fact, just about everyone.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: x-large;">If you want to view the videos, go to the original article</span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /><h3><span style="font-size: x-large;">Dragged into a war by clowns who can't even run a railway</span></h3><h3>By <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/columnists/columnist-224/Peter-Hitchens.html">PETER HITCHENS</a></h3><br />28 September 2014<br /><br />Wars cause far more atrocities than they prevent. In fact, wars make atrocities normal and easy. If you don’t like atrocities, don’t start wars. It is a simple rule, and not hard to follow.<br /><br />The only mercy in war, as all soldiers know, is a swift victory by one side or the other. Yet our subservient, feeble Parliament on Friday obediently shut its eyes tight and launched itself yet again off the cliff of war. It did so even though – in a brief moment of truth – the Prime Minister admitted that such a war will be a very long one, and has no visible end.<br /><br />The arguments used in favour of this decision – in a mostly unpacked House of Commons – were pathetic beyond belief. Most of them sounded as if their users had got them out of a cornflakes packet, or been given them by Downing Street, which is much the same.<br /><br /><br /><img src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/09/27/article-2772161-21B71D3E00000578-354_634x397.jpg" /><br /><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Those who favour this action claim to care about massacres and persecution. But in fact they want to be seen to care, writes Hitchens</span></b><br /><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Cameron: Britain to join airstrikes against ISIS in Iraq &nbsp;</b></span></div><div><img src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/09/25/video-undefined-21A8B3D500000578-725_636x358.jpg" /><br /><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>British fighter jets fly over Iraq, ready to strike</b></span><br /><img src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/09/27/video-undefined-21B7EE0E00000578-669_636x358.jpg" /><br /><br />Wild and unverifiable claims were made that Islamic State plans attacks on us here in our islands. If so, such attacks are far more likely now than they were before we decided to bomb them. So, if your main worry is such attacks, you should be against British involvement.<br /><br />The same cheap and alarmist argument was made year after year to justify what everyone now knows was our futile and costly presence in Afghanistan. Why should the Afghans need to come here to kill British people when we sent our best to Helmand, to be blown up and shot for reasons that have never been explained?20/09/14. Bombs won’t save anyone. Weeks of bombing have already failed to tip the balance in Iraq, whose useless, demoralised army continues to run away.<br /><br />A year ago, we were on the brink of aiding the people we now want to bomb, and busily encouraging the groups which have now become Islamic State. Now they are our hated foes. Which side are we actually on? Do we know? Do we have any idea what we are doing?<br /><br />The answer is that we don’t. That is why, in a scandal so vast it is hardly ever mentioned, the Chilcot report on the 2003 Iraq War has still not been published. Who can doubt that it has been suppressed because it reveals that our Government is dim and ill-informed?<br /><br />As this country now has hardly any soldiers, warships, military aircraft or bombs, Friday’s warmongers resorted to the only weapon they have in plentiful supply – adjectives (‘vicious, barbaric’, etc etc). Well, I have better adjectives. Those who presume to rule us are ignorant and incompetent and learn nothing from their own mistakes. How dare these people, who can barely manage to keep their own country in one piece, presume to correct the woes of the world?<br /><br />Before they’re allowed to play out their bathtub bombing fantasies, oughtn’t they to be asked to show they can manage such dull things as schools (no discipline), border control (vanished), crime (so out of control that the truth has to be hidden), transport (need I say?) and hospitals (hopelessly overloaded and increasingly dangerous)?<br /><br />None of them will now even mention their crass intervention in Libya, which turned that country into a swamp of misery and unleashed upon Europe an uncontrollable wave of desperate economic migrants who are now arriving in Southern England in shockingly large numbers.<br /><br />We have for years happily done business with Saudi Arabia, often sending our Royal family there. It is hard to see why we should now be so worried about the establishment of another fiercely intolerant Sunni Muslim oil state, repressive, horrible to women and given to cutting people’s heads off in public. Since we proudly tout our 1998 surrender to the IRA as a wonderful and praiseworthy peace deal, it is hard to see why we are now so hoity-toity about doing business with terror, or paying ransom.<br /><br />We gave the whole of Northern Ireland to the IRA, to ransom the City of London and to protect our frightened political class from bombs. Why can we not pay (as other NATO members do) to release innocent hostages? We conceded the principle of ransom years ago. Talk about swallowing a camel and straining at a gnat.<br /><br />How is it that we have allowed our country to be governed by people so ignorant of history and geography, so unable to learn from their mistakes and so immune to facts and logic?<br /><br />Can we do anything about it? I fear not.<br /><br /></div></div>Paul Eisenhttps://plus.google.com/115728519410143369471noreply@blogger.com